Dinneen
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Dinneen (Template:Langx for men, Script error: No such module "Lang". for women) is an Irish surname. The family was famous for having supplied generations of court poets to their overlords in the ancient kingdom of Corcu Loígde.[1] According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Dinneens were a chiefly family of the Corca Laoghdne who in turn came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts who settled in Ireland from 500 to 100 BC.[2] The Uí Duinnín were then hereditary historians to the MacCarthy Mór.[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Bill Dinneen (1876–1955), American baseball player
- Dan Dinneen (1870–1948), American businessman and politician
- John Dinneen (1867–1942), Irish politician
- Joseph F. Dinneen (1897–1964), writer
- Kevin Dineen, Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Dinneen, American-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist
- Patrick S. Dinneen (1860–1934), Irish lexicographer and historian