EGO PATRICIUS

At the time “Ego Patricius” – “Mise Pátraic” – “I Patrick” brought Christianity to Druidic Ireland; that being in the fifth century, there lived in the mountains and valleys and along by the seashore of Éire a renowned sociable recluse; a happy wanderer who greatly delighted in talking about what he had observed, heard or thought or even dreamt while strolling about throughout the length and breath of the island. He was known by all and sundry as: An tÁrd-Fealsamh - The Pre-Eminent Philosopher. It is true to say, there was none like him in profoundness of thought in ancient Ireland or none like him even in his own day or has there ever been anyone since like him; not even Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c.815-c.877), John Toland (1670-1722) nor George Berkeley (1685-1753) can even remotely be said to come near him for the free, easy, lucid and limitless way in which he used his mind. On the world stage of all time, I can only think of possibly one philosopher who could be considered nearing his way of using the mind and that would have to be the admirable fourth-century Ante Christum Natum, Chinese philosopher, Chuang Tzu. Yet, though in saying that he very much feels to me, compared to An tÁrd-Fealsamh, to be somewhat self-limiting at times in how far he was willing to take his thoughts.
In the day of An tÁrd-Fealsamh there lived a prospicient woman named, Scáthánnéis Ní Grianálainn and it was she who first took it upon herself to make sure he and his words and as much as possible his writings too would be known to posterity. Without her great dedication and effort we would have no primary proof that he had ever even existed since he seems to have been as it were airbrushed from the evangelization of Hibernia (Ireland) canvas.
Solaris Hibernia: A Philosophising Beau-Ideal ~ Leabhar: An Scéal Fada