Donnchadh O Corrain (28 February 1942 ? 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork . ^[1] He earned his BA in history and Irish from that institution, graduating in 1964. ^[2]

He was an early Irish and mediaeval historian and published on the Viking Wars, Ireland in the pre- Hiberno-Norman period and the origin 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 the ArCH, CELT and MultiText projects of U.C.C. ^[1] He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1982. ^[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 [ edit ]

• O Corrain, Donnchadh. "Ireland before the Normans" . Vol. 2. Gill and Mac Millan, 1972.
• Mac Curtain, Margaret, and Donnchadh O Corrain. "Women in Irish society: The historical dimension" . No. 11. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
• O Corrain, Donnchadh; Breatnach, Liam; Breen, Aidan (1984). "The laws of the Irish". Peritia . 3 : 382?438. doi : 10.1484/J.Peri.3.77 .
• O Corrain, Donnchadh. "Ireland c. 800: aspects of society." A new history of Ireland - Volume 1" (2005): 549?608.
• O Corrain, Donnchadh (1998). "The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the ninth century". Peritia . 12 : 296?339. doi : 10.1484/J.Peri.3.334 . S2CID   160083344 .
• O Corrain, Donnchadh. "The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion" . (2017)
• O Corrain, Donnchadh. Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols) , Brepols. (2017)

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External links [ edit ]

• institutional homepage
• Extensive list of published articles, CELT
• Ireland after Donnchadh...History Ireland Volume 26