Dáibhí O Croinin
Daibhi O Croinn is Emeritus Professor of history at NUI Galway. Daibhi is a noted authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, particularly eminent for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Reeling in the years: why 664 AD was a terrible year in Ireland
Analysis: the plague of 664 AD was one of the transformative events of early Irish history and its devastating effects lingered for several years The Irish annals for 664 AD… | Read on »
How the Irish Helped to Work Out the Correct Way of Dating Easter
Iona Abbey, the island monastery founded off the western coast of Scotland in 563 AD by St Colum Cille The work of early Irish scholars and astronomical experts on developing… | Read on »