Patrick Power (historian)

{{Short description|Irish historian of the Catholic Church in Ireland}}

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Canon Patrick Power (8 March 1862 – 16 October 1951), was a noted historian of the Catholic Church in Ireland. He was born on 8 March 1862, in Callaghane, Co. Waterford and educated at the Catholic University School and St. John's College, Waterford.[http://www.waterfordcoco.ie/en/media/archives/Canon%20Patrick%20Power-Talk%20by%20Msg%20Olden.pdf Canon Patrick Power A Talk] by Msg. Michael G. Olden presented at Canon Patrick Power Seminar, WIT, 8 March 2012

Power was ordained a priest and worked in Liverpool and Australia and was later attached to Waterford Cathedral. He was also a diocesan schools inspector and lecturer in archaeology at St Patrick's College, Maynooth between 1910 and 1931. He was Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork between 1915 and 1934,{{cite web| url = https://www.academia.edu/18305166| title = Devoted to Archaeology: Professor (Canon) Patrick Power (1862–1951) |website=academia.edu| last1 = Twohig| first1 = Elizabeth}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/p/Power,P/life.htm|title=(Rev.) Patrick Power|publisher=Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)|access-date=2009-06-22 |url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050126155032/http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/p/Power,P/life.htm |archive-date=2005-01-26}} and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. During his time in Cork he was awarded a D.Litt., by the National University of Ireland. He was also appointed a Canon of the Catholic Church.{{Cite journal|last=Twohig|first=Elizabeth|title=Devoted to Archaeology: Professor (Canon) Patrick Power (1862–1951)|url=https://www.academia.edu/18305166|journal=Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society|volume=118|pages=109–133}}

He died 16 October 1951.