Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Born	Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (1954-08-29) August 29, 1954
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Historian

Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954) 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.

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.

He is a grandson of Elizabeth Cronin, an Irish traditional singer.

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)
• 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)

External links

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