Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

However, despite earlier concepts of a strict Early Historic evolution, Irish excavations are increasingly uncovering examples which date to the ' missing ' Iron Age in Ireland.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

Early Irish Literature.

Early Irish Myths and Sagas.

* O ' Rahilly, T. F. Early Irish History and Mythology ( 1946 )

Both systems have been compared with the concept of tanistry found in Early Irish Law, although the political reality appears to have been more complex.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

; Early Irish literature

Irish Art in the Early Christian Period.

* Early 6th century – Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia ( later known as Scotland ).

There is a history of pensions in Ireland that can be traced back to Brehon Law imposing a legal responsibility on the kin group to take care of its members who were aged, blind, deaf, sick or insane .< REF > THE IRISH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF IRISH OCCUPATIONAL PENSION FUNDS AS INSTITUTIONAL MONITORS-Lynn ( UCD PhD Thesis, 2005 )</ REF > For a discussion on pension funds and early Irish law, see F Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law ( Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988 ).

Irish Monasticism, Origins and Early Development, Talbot Press, Dublin, 1931

* Settlement patterns in the early historic kingdom of Leinster ( seventh-mid twelfth centuries ), Mark Clinton, in Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne, ed.

Early Mist secured O ' Brien's first victory in 1953 ; Royal Tan won in 1954, and Quare Times completed the Irish trainer's hat-trick in 1955.

According to the Early Irish law text on status, Uraicecht Becc, bards were a lesser class of poets, not eligible for higher poetic roles as described above.

The Early modern ( classical ) Irish form was Aonghus.

Pointing to variants such as Irish badhbh ‘ hoodie crow, a fairy, a scold ,’ Early Irish badb, ‘ crow, demon ,’ Badba, Welsh bod, ‘ kite ,’ the Gaulish name Bodv -, in Bodvo-gnatus and the Welsh name Bodnod, Macbain ( 1982 ) suggests * bodwā-as the Proto-Celtic ancestral form.

Early Irish history and mythology.

* O ' Rahilly, Thomas F., Early Irish History and Mythology.

Early museums such as Kircher's were private affairs, wooden arks or cabinets where antiquarians kept collections of curious objects.

Early eighteenth century antiquarians, such as Lorenz Beger, then adopted the word for the stone and bronze tools they were finding at prehistoric sites ; the OED suggests that the imaginary etymological connection with the Celts may have assisted its passage into common use.

The term may have originated with 18th-century antiquarians, but its usage in a sequence of styles has been attributed to Thomas Rickman in his 1817 work An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation which used the labels " Norman, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular ".

" Early antiquarians interpreted the inscription as referring to the place where the stone was found, but this idea is no longer accepted among scholars, and " Alatervae " is presumably a native name for the Matronae, perhaps originating with the Tungrian cohort who erected the altar.

Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early mathematicians regarded axiomatic geometry as a model of physical space, and obviously there could only be one such model.

Early CPU accelerator cards feature full 32-bit CPUs of the 68000 family such as the Motorola 68020 and Motorola 68030, almost always with 32-bit memory and usually with FPUs and MMUs or the facility to add them.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

As a result, schemes such as Partial Packet Discard ( PPD ) and Early Packet Discard ( EPD ) have been created that will discard a whole series of cells until the next packet starts.

Early 4-bit and 8-bit microprocessors such as the 4004, 8008 and numerous others, typically had single accumulators.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Early computer system documentation would specify the memory size with an exact number such as 4096, 8192, or 16384 words of storage.

Early detection and rapid response to bioterrorism depend on close cooperation between public health authorities and law enforcement ; however, such cooperation is currently lacking.

Early molecular studies revealed several surprises, such as the non-monophyly of the traditional Datiscaceae, including Tetrameles and Octomeles, but the exact relationships among the families remained unclear.

Early Sunday strips, such as Thimble Theatre and Little Orphan Annie, filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as full page.

On TV shows based in Chicago such as The Bob Newhart Show, Married ... with Children, Family Matters, Still Standing, According to Jim, Early Edition and The Bernie Mac Show, the main characters are all Bears fans, and have worn Bears ' jerseys and t-shirts on some occasions.

Early works such as Portrait of a Man ( 1929 ) show Alston's detailed and realistic style depicted through pastels and charcoals, inspired by the style of Winold Reiss.

Early Eastern Zhou texts, such as the Spring and Autumn Annals, provide better understanding of the calendars used in the Zhou dynasty.

In Ireland, crannogs tend to reach a floruit during the Early Historic period when they were the homes and retreats of kings, lords, prosperous farmers and occasionally socially marginalised groups such as monastic hermits or metalsmiths who could work in isolation.

Early origins of popular frozen desserts, such as ice cream, trace back to the Middle Ages when royalty would request fresh ice flavored with honey or a fruit syrup.

Early color motion picture processes such as Kinemacolor and Prizmacolor used travelogues to promote the new color process.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

Early commercial digital synthesizers used simple hard-wired digital circuitry to implement techniques such as additive synthesis and FM synthesis, becoming commercially available in the late 1970s.

Early storage devices such as delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, and magnetic drums were used instead.

Early works of biblical criticism, such as Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, as well as works by lesser-known authors such as Richard Simon and Isaac La Peyrère, paved the way for the development of critical deism.

Thomas was an accomplished writer of prose poetry, with collections such as Potrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ) and Quite Early One Morning ( 1954 ) showing he was capable of writing moving short stories.