Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Donnchadh Ó Corráin (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 UCC, graduating in 1964.^[2]

Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Born	(1942-02-28)28 February 1942
Died	25 October 2017(2017-10-25) (aged 75)
Nationality	Irish
Alma mater	University College Cork

He was a prominent scholar in early Irish and mediaeval history and with significant publications on the Viking Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman period and the origins 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 several key projects at UCC, including ArCH, CELT and MultiText.^[1] In 1982, he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.^[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

• 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; Breatnach, Liam; Breen, Aidan (1984). "The laws of the Irish". Peritia. 3: 382–438. doi:10.1484/J.Peri.3.77.
• Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "Ireland c. 800: aspects of society." A new history of Ireland - Volume 1" (2005): 549–608.
• Ó Corráin, 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.
• Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. "The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion". (2017)
• Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium (3 Vols), Brepols. (2017)