St John Seymour

John Drelincourt Seymour, B.D., Litt D., M.R.I.A., Archdeacon of Cashel and Emly, was an Irish Anglican priest^[1] in the first half of the 20th century. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1904.

After curacies in Durrow and Thurles he was the incumbent at Toem, Ireland, then Borris, before his years as Archdeacon of Cashell and Emly^[2] and Donohill afterwards.

He died on 25 May 1950.^[3]

Books Published as Author

Source: Ricorso

• United Diocese of Cashel and Emly, 1908, Belfast Public Library
• The Puritans of Ireland 1647-1661, 1912 & Clarendon Press 1969
• Irish Witchcraft and Demonology, 1913 & 1970 (Chap.3, Kyteler Case and its surroundings)
• True Irish Ghost Stories, 1914, 1926
• St Patrick’s Purgatory: A Medieval Pilgrimage in Ireland, 1919, University of Ulster Library
• The Tales of King Solomon, Oxford University Press, London 1924
• Anglo-Irish Literature 1200-1582, 1929 & Octagon 1970
• Irish Visions of the Otherworld: A Contribution to the Study of Medieval Visions, 1930
• Adventures and Experiences of a Seventeenth Century Clergyman, 1909, Belfast Public Library

Other Work

• Liber Primus Kilkenniensis - 15th century edition
• The Ormond Fragments 1 & 2 - Royal Irish Academy, 1932-1934

References

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 p 1178 Oxford, OUP
2. "A New History of Ireland" Moody,T.W; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
3. IGP Archived 29 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• Works by St John Seymour at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about St John Seymour at Internet Archive
• John D. Seymour (1924). Tales of King Solomon