Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954)^[2] is an Irish historian, and professor of history at the National University of Ireland, Galway (N.U.I. Galway). M.Phil., Ph.D. (N.U.I.), and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Ó Cróinín received a B.A. in Early Irish History from University College Dublin in 1975 and an M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from the same in 1977. He received his Ph.D. from University College, Galway in 1985; it was on a seventh- century Hiberno-Latin computistical tract which he claims to have discovered and was published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in the University of Toronto.^[2]

An author of many articles and contributor to several books, he specialises in medieval Irish and European history, Early Irish Script and Early Irish Law.^[3]

He is a grandson of Elizabeth Cronin, an Irish traditional singer.^[4][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)

References

External links

• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín at NUI Galway
• Entry at the Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature 1972-