Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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He was a prominent scholar in early Irish and mediaeval history and with significant publications on the Viking Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman period and the origins of Irish language names. In addition to his position at UCC, he held academic positions at University College Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Cambridge University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Oslo and Oxford University, where he was a visiting senior research fellow of Balliol College.[3]
He founded and directed several key projects at UCC, including ArCH, CELT and MultiText.[1] In 1982, he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[4] Shortly before his death, his magnum opus, the monumental Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols) (A Key to the Writings of the Irish), was published.[5]
Selected works
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "Ireland before the Normans". Vol. 2. Gill and Mac Millan, 1972.
- Mac Curtain, Margaret, and Donnchadh Ó Corráin. "Women in Irish society: The historical dimension". No. 11. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
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- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "Ireland c. 800: aspects of society." A new history of Ireland - Volume 1" (2005): 549–608.
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- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion". (2017)
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols), Brepols. (2017)
References
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- 1942 births
- 2017 deaths
- 20th-century Irish historians
- 21st-century Irish historians
- Academics of University College Cork
- Academics of University College Dublin
- Academics of the University of Oxford
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Celtic studies scholars
- Irish art historians
- Scholars and academics from County Cork
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Academic staff of the University of Oslo
- Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies