Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Encyclopedia
Donnchadh Ó Corráin is an Irish
historian
and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. He is an early Irish and mediaeval historian and has published on the Viking
Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman
period and the origin of Irish language
names.
Republic of Ireland
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historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. He is an early Irish and mediaeval historian and has published on the Viking
Viking
The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman
Hiberno-Norman
The Hiberno-Normans are those Norman lords who settled in Ireland who admitted little if any real fealty to the Anglo-Norman settlers in England, and who soon began to interact and intermarry with the Gaelic nobility of Ireland. The term embraces both their origins as a distinct community with...
period and the origin of Irish language
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
names.
Works
Ó Corráin's publications include:- Ireland before the Normans (Dublin 1972)
- Celtic Ireland (Dublin 1981)
- Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic studies in honour of James Carney (Maynooth 1989)
- James Hogan: revolutionary, historian, and political scientist (Dublin 2000)