Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish

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and professor emeritus of medieval history at

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. He earned his BA in history and Irish from UCC, graduating in 1964. He was a prominent scholar in early Irish and mediaeval history and with significant publications on the

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Wars, Ireland in the pre-

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period and the origins of

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names. In addition to his position at UCC, he held academic positions at

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and

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, where he was a visiting senior research fellow of

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. He founded and directed several key projects at UCC, including ArCH, CELT and MultiText. In 1982, he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Shortly before his death, his magnum opus, the monumental ''Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols)'' (A Key to the Writings of the Irish), was published. The Big Book: Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols), History Ireland Volume 27
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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. * * Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. ''"Ireland c. 800: aspects of society." A new history of Ireland - Volume 1"'' (2005): 549–608. * * Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. ''"The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion"''. (2017) * Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. ''Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols)'', Brepols. (2017)

References

External links

Extensive list of published articles, CELT

Ireland after Donnchadh...History Ireland Volume 26
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