Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin

Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin, Irish historian and celticist.

Career

Presently lecturer in Medieval Irish Studies Programme at the Department of Old and Middle Irish, NUI, Maynooth. Research fellow on the Monasticon Hibernicum Project (funded by the Ireland Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences). Has published a number of papers on early Irish political and ecclesiastical history.

elect bibliography

* "Prosopgraphica Glindelachensis: The Monastic Church of Glendalough and its Community, Sixth to Thirteenth Centuries," in "Journal of the Royal Society of Irish Antiquarians", No. 119, pp. 82-84. 1989.
* "The Uí Muiredaig and the Abbey of Glendalough in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries," in "Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies," No. 25, pp. 55-75. 1993.
* "Church and polity in pre-Norman Ireland," May 1996.
* "Nebulae discutiuntur"? The emergence of Clann Cholmáin, sixth-eighth centuries," pp.83-97, in Alfred P Smyth (ed.), "Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne". Dublin: Four Courts, 1999. ISBN 978-1-85182-489-2
* "The Vikings: an illustrated history," Dublin, 2002.
* "The Island of St Patrick: Church and ruling dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148," (ed.)
** "An ecclesiastical enclosure in the townland of Grange, parish of Holmpatrick," ibid, pp.52-60
** "Church and dynasty in Early Christian Brega: Lusk, Inis Pátraic and the cast of Máel-Finnia, king and saint," ibid, pp. 125-39.