Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Donnchadh Ó Corráin was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. He earned his BA in history and Irish from that institution, graduating in 1964.
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, Cambridge University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Oslo and Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Balliol College.
He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1982.
Shortly before his death his magnum opus, the monumental Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium , was published.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" : 549–608.
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- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion".
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium , Brepols.
