Patrick

See Back From Ireland.

I missed one important Irish connection. St Patrick is:

a character in The King Of Ys by Poul and Karen Anderson;

the legendary figure after whom a star is named in Poul Anderson's Technic History;

of local interest in the Lancaster City District. See here.

While we are in the presence of sainthood, for my philosophical reflections on life and death while I was in Ireland, see here.