F. X. Martin
Francis Xavier Martin, OSA (Irish: Proinsias Xavier Ó Máirtín; 2 October 1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish cleric, historian and activist.
Life
Francis Xavier Martin was born 2 October 1922 in
Martin was raised in
He was chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin, 1976–83,[3] and of the Dublin Historic Settlement Group, and was noted as a leading member of a well-publicized struggle, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, to save the historic Wood Quay archaeological site in Dublin.[4] While Martin could not prevent the construction of a civic office building, in 1978, part of the site was declared a national monument. Martin, a keen horseman, earned from his colleagues the nickname "The Beggar on Horseback", from his evading a fine by citing that he was a mendicant.
He was also chairman of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland from 1977 to 1981.[5]
Martin was the author of landmark books on the history of Ireland and of his own Augustinian order.[6]
He died at the house of the Augustinians near
Martin's papers are preserved in the archives of the National Library of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland.[5]
Select bibliography
- 1948: "The writings of Eoin Mac Neill", Irish Historical Studies, No. 21, pp. 44–62.
- 1950: Sanguinea Eremus Martyrum Hiberniae Ord. Eremit S.P. Augustini (1655), edition, Archivium Hibernicum, 15, pp. 74–91.
- 1950: "John Baptist Rosseter, osa: Family background and pre-American years", The Past, # 6, 26–44.
- 1955: "Archives of the Irish Augustinians in Rome: A summary report", Archivium Hibernicum, #18, 157–63.
- 1956: Irish material in the Augustinian Archives, Rome, 1354–1624, eds. A. de Meijer and F.X. Martin, Archivium Hibernicum, xix (19), pp. 61–134.
- 1960: "An Irish Capuchin missionary in politics: Francis Nugentnegotiates with James I, 1623–4", Bulletin of the Irish Committee of Historical Studies, No. 90, pp. 1–3.
- 1963: The Irish Volunteers 1913–1915: Recollections and Documents, F.X. Martin (ed.); foreword by Eamon de Valera. Dublin 1963.
- 1967: The Course of Irish History, T. W. Moodyand F.X. Martin (eds.), Cork and New York.
- 1967: Giles of Viterbo, New Catholic Encyclopedia, No. 6, Washington D.C.
- 1967: Gerald of Wales, Norman Reporter in Ireland, Studies, lviii, pp. 279–92.
- 1971: "Jean Waldeby [c.1312-c.1372; Ecrivain, theologien, predicateur]" in Dictionnaire de Spiritualite, 8.
- 1973: The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867–1945 and the making of the New Ireland, F. X. Martin, and Francis John Byrne, (eds), Irish University Press.
- 1975: "Obstinate Skerrett, Missionary in Virginia, the West Indies and England, (c.1674–c.1688)", Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, volume 35, 1975 (see John Skerrett (Augustinian).
- 1976: A New History of Ireland: Early Modern Ireland 1534–1691: volume III, (eds.)
- 1978: No Hero in the House: Diarmaid Mac Murchada and the Coming of the Normans to Ireland, O Donnell Lecture, xix, National University of Ireland.
- 1978: Expugnatio Hibernica: The Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis, A. B. Scott and F. X. Martin, eds, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
- 1979: "The Wood Quay Saga. Part 1: November 1977 – January 1979: Bulldozers and a National Monument", in The Belevederian, Dublin, pp. 215–33.
- 1981: "Dublin Universität 1312–1981", Theologische Realenzyklopädie, No. 9, Berlin and New York, pp. 202–04.
- 1982: A New History of Ireland, volume eight, Oxford (editor).
- 1984: A New History of Ireland, volume nine, Oxford (editor).
- 1985: The Rosseters of Rathmacknee Castle, Co. Wexford, 1169–1881, Dublin, Good Counsel Press.
- 1986: A New History of Ireland, volume four (editor).
- 1987: A New History of Ireland, volume two (editor).
- 1988: A New History of Ireland, volume five (editor).
- 1988: "Murder in a Medieval Monastery" in Keimelia: Studies in Medieval Archaeology and History in memory of Tom Delaney. Galway University Press.
Notes
- ^ UCD Archives
- ^ a b O'Sullivan, Kevin. "F.X. Martin, noted Wood Quay activist, dies", The Irish Times, 14 February 2000.
- ^ a b Melia, Paul. "Priest who led campaign to save Viking site is honoured", Independent, 6 February 2010.
- ^ National Library of Ireland, "Remembering FX Martin"
- ^ a b Emer Purcell, "News: Professor FX Martin's personal papers handed over to the National Library".
- ^ A. Simms, "Professor F.X. Martin, O.S.A." in The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 131, 2001, pp. 154–.
- ^ News item on the occasion of his death
References
- 1988: Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies presented to F.X. Martin, OSA, John Bradley, editor. Boethius Press, Kilkenny, 1988. ISBN 086-31414-39
- 2006: Ireland, England, and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Essays in Memory of a Turbulent Friar, F.X. Martin, OSA, J.R.S. Phillips and Howard Clarke, editors; University College Dublin Press, 2006.