Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin

For other people named Ailbhe, see Ailbhe (disambiguation).

Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin (31 August 1954 – 29 June 2011)[1] was an Irish medieval historian and celticist.

Career

Studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He was a research associate at Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, NUI Maynooth. Previously he taught early Irish history & settlement studies at Trinity, St. Patrick's College Drumcondra and NUI Maynooth where he lectured on the Medieval Irish Studies Programme at the Department of Old and Middle Irish. Prior to that he taught History and Irish in Belcamp College Secondary School.[2] In recent years, he led and managed the Monasticon Hibernicum Project (funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences). This Database of Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th centuries was published on-line in 2009. Has published a number of papers on early Irish political and ecclesiastical history and has contributed over 300 entries to the Dictionary of Irish Biography.[3] Mac Shamhráin died in Dublin on 29 June 2011, after a very long illness which he endured with immense determination and dignity during which he continued to write and completed his final article in hospital on the date of his untimely death.[4]

Select bibliography

References

  1. "MacSHAMHRÁIN, Ailbhe : Death notice - Irish Times Family Notices - Irish Times". Notices.irishtimes.com. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  2. A MacShamhrain (ed), The Island of St. Patrick (Dublin, 2004), p. 180 (notes on contributors).
  3. A MacShamhrain, Lives of the Irish Saints: A brief Introduction (Dublin, 2009), p.4 (note on the author).
  4. "MacSHAMHRÁIN, Ailbhe : Death notice - Irish Times Family Notices - Irish Times". Notices.irishtimes.com. 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-11-18.


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