Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

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NUI Galway

Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954)

NUI Galway and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He specialises in the history of Ireland, Britain and Europe during the Middle Ages and Hiberno-Latin texts.[3]

Early life and education

Ó Cróinín received a B.A. in Early Irish History from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1975 and an M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from the same in 1977.[1]

Academia

While wandering around

University College Galway in 1985; the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto published Ó Cróinín's work on that seventh-century Hiberno-Latin computistical tract which he had discovered.[1] Alongside Daniel McCarthy, Ó Cróinín published "The 'Lost' Irish 84-Year Easter Table Rediscovered" in the journal Peritia in the late 1980s, explaining the implications of his discovery for our understanding of the period.[4]

Ó Cróinín succeeded Donnchadh Ó Corráin as editor of Peritia at some point in the mid-2010s.[5]

Publications

A list of Ó Cróinín's books follows:

  • The Irish Sex Aetates Mundi
    , Dublin (1982)
  • Cummian's letter 'De controversia Paschali' together with a related Irish compustical tract 'De rationae conputanti', edited with Maura Walsh (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies; Studies and texts, lxxxvi), Toronto (1988)
  • An Cúigiú Díochlaonadh, Indreabhan, Connamara (1994)
  • Early Medieval Ireland, 400–1200, London and New York (1995)[6]
  • The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer, Dublin (2000)
  • Early Irish History and Chronology, Dublin (2003)
  • A New History of Ireland, volume one, Dublin (2006)

Awards and honours

Ó Cróinín was awarded the Parnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at the University of Cambridge for the year 2017–18.[7]

Personal life

His father was the scholar Donncha Ó Cróinín (1919–1990),[8][9] and his paternal grandmother was the sean-nós singer Elizabeth Cronin (1879–1956).[10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Curriculum Vitae of Dáibhí Ó Cróinín". Archived from the original on 19 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Ó Cróinín (Dáibhí Iarla)". Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature.
  3. ^ "Dáibhí Ó Cróinín". 7 July 2001. Archived from the original on 7 July 2001.
  4. ^ McCarthy, Daniel; Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (1987–88). "THE 'LOST' IRISH 84-YEAR EASTER TABLE REDISCOVERED" (PDF). Peritia. Vol. 6–7. pp. 227–242. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2017.
  5. ^ Verstraten Veach, Freya (1 September 2016). "Festschrift for a Scholar". Irish Literary Supplement. 36 (1). Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. He edited the journal Peritia from its inception in 1980 until handing over the baton recently to Elva Johnston and Daibhi Ó Croinin (who, incidentally, have dedicated the latest volume of the journal to Ó Corrain).
  6. ^ Stout, Matthew (1996). "Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 Dáibhí Ó Cróinín". History Ireland.
  7. ^ "Staff success". Cois Coiribe. Autumn 2017. p. 43.
  8. ^ "Ó Cróinín, Donncha A. (1919–1990)". Ainm.ie (in Irish).
  9. ^ Ó Liatháin, Concubhar (16 November 2021). "New edition of Bess Cronin songbook published". Irish Independent.
  10. ^ McCormick, Fred (2000). "The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin". Irish Music Review. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015.
  11. JSTOR 4522696
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