Andrewes was considered, next to Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.

A Life of Saint Ninian ( Vita Sancti Niniani ) was written around 1160 by Ailred of Rievaulx, and in 1639 James Ussher discusses Ninian in his Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates.

Ussher says that Ninian left Candida Casa for Cluayn-coner in Ireland, and eventually died in Ireland ; that his mother was a Spanish princess ; that his father wished to regain him after having assented to his training for an ecclesiastical state ; that a bell comes from heaven to call together his disciples ; that a wooden church was raised by him, with beams delivered by stags ; and that a harper with no experience at architecture was the builder of the church.

Donnybrook Castle, home of the Ussher family whose most famous member was James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, is first mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was demolished early in the nineteenth century.

James Ussher ( sometimes spelled Usher, 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656 ) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656.

His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.

Ussher was a gifted polyglot, entering Dublin Free School and then the newly-founded ( 1591 ) Trinity College, Dublin on 9 January 1594, at the age of thirteen ( not an unusual age at the time ).

In May 1602, he was ordained in the Trinity College Chapel as a deacon in the Protestant, established, Church of Ireland ( and possibly priest on the same day ) by his uncle Henry Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power.

He had hoped that Laud would help to impose order on what was, Ussher accepted, a somewhat mismanaged institution.

By 1635, it was apparent that Ussher had lost de facto control of the church to John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, in everyday matters, and to Laud in matters of policy.

The traditional view of Ussher is of a slightly-unworldly scholar, who was, at best, a mediocre politician and administrator.

Ussher was very reluctant to arrive at firm judgements as to the sources ' authenticity — hence his devotion of a whole chapter to the imaginative but invented stories of King Lucius and the creation of a Christian episcopate in Britain.

As the middle ground between King and Parliament vanished in 1641 – 1642, Ussher was forced, reluctantly, to choose between his godly Calvinist allies in parliament and his instinctive loyalty to the monarchy.

James Ussher ( later Archbishop of Armagh ) was their main author.

J. Ussher agrees with the dating until the birth of Abraham, which he argues took place when Terah was 130, and not 70 as is the direct reading of, thus adding 60 years to his chronology for events postdating Abraham.

He was made cupbearer to the Princess Elizabeth, in 1613, remaining abroad for some years ; and before 1629 he was appointed secretary to Ussher, the primate of Ireland.

Durham Cathedral Priory closed in 1540, and some decades later the book was recorded by Archbishop Ussher in the library of the Oxford scholar, antiquary and astrologer, Thomas Allen ( 1542 – 1632 ) of Gloucester Hall ( now Worcester College, Oxford ).

* 24 December-Arland Ussher, academic, essayist and translator ( born 1899 ).

Shawe-Taylor was born in Dublin, Ireland, the younger of two sons of Francis Manley Shawe-Taylor ( 1869 – 1920 ), magistrate and high sheriff for the county of Galway, and his wife, Agnes Mary Eleanor née Ussher ( 1874 – 1939 ).

Ussher went on to become Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1605 and Prebend of Finglas.

After Convocation in 1634, Ussher left Dublin for his episcopal residence at Drogheda, where he concentrated on his archdiocese and his research.

Ramsden's transit instruments were the first which were illuminated through the hollow axis ; the idea was suggested to him by Prof. Henry Ussher in Dublin.

James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland.

* James Ussher of Ireland ( 1581 – 1656 ), Anglican theologian, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland

* March 21 – James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland ( b. 1581 )

Ussher soon found himself at odds with the rise of Arminianism and Wentworth and Laud's desire for conformity between the Church of England and the more Calvinistic Church of Ireland.

In 1640, Ussher left Ireland for England for what turned out to be the last time.

The € 27 million James Ussher Library, opened officially by the President of Ireland in April 2003, is the newest addition to Trinity College reader spaces and houses the Glucksman Map Library and Conservation Department.

When the Irish Parliament adopted the 39 Articles in 1634 under pressure from the King and Archbishop Laud, Ussher ensured that the Church of Ireland in the Irish Convocation adopted them in addition to, not instead of, the Irish Articles.

The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh ( Church of Ireland ).

A flood on the Dodder in March 1628 claimed the life of Arthur Ussher, Deputy Clerk to the Privy Council of Ireland who was " carried away by the current, nobody being able to succour him, although many persons .. his nearest friends, were by on both sides.

In 1650 the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, published a monumental history of the world from creation to 70 A. D.

What Bramhall attempted to get the English canons of 1604 adopted in Ireland ; there was conflict over this matter between him and James Ussher, ending with the passing of distinct canons, in the compiling of which Bramhall had a share.

His brother, Ussher, who resided near Edgeworthstown, along with relatives there ( including novelist Maria Edgeworth ), were keen for him to return to Ireland.

Louis XVIII wrote his epitaph, a copy of which, together with a letter of condolence, was sent by Louis ' orders to Mr. Ussher Edgeworth in Ireland.

Ussher fell into disrepute among theologians as well ; in 1890, Princeton professor William Henry Green wrote a highly influential article in Bibliotheca Sacra entitled " Primeval Chronology " in which he strongly criticised Ussher.

The meaning of the earth being divided is usually taken to refer to a patriarchal division of the world, or possibly just the eastern hemisphere, into allotted portions among the three sons of Noah for future occupation, as specifically described in the Book of Jubilees, Biblical Antiquities of Philo, Kitab al-Magall, Flavius Josephus, and numerous other antiquarian and mediaeval sources, even as late as Archbishop Ussher, in his Annals of the World.

* January 4 – James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar ( d. 1656 )

* January 4-Archbishop James Ussher, Anglo-Irish scholar ( died 1656 )

The Ussher family held the Island for 200 years. In the 17th C. there was some exploratory lead or copper mining.