F. X. Martin

F.X. Martin, (Francis Xaviar Martin), (1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish cleric, historian and activist.

Born in County Kerry of a family originally from County Galway, Martin was raised in Dublin, later joining the Augustinian Order. He later became the first Professor of Medieval History University College Dublin, was Chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin 1976-1983, and Chairman of the Dublin Historic Settlement Group. Noted as a leading member of struggle to save the historic Wood Quay archeological site in Dublin during the late 1970's and early 1980's. He died in Dublin. He was a brother of Malachi Martin.

elect Bibliography

*1948: "The writings of Eoin Mac Neill", Irish Historical Studies, #21, pp. 44-62.
*1950: "Sanguinea Eremus Martyrum Hiberniae Ord. Eremit S.P. Augustini (1655)", edition, Archivium Hibernicum, 15, pp. 74-91.
*1950: "John Baprist Rosseter, osa: Family background and pre-American years", The Past, # 6, 26-44.
*1955: "Archives of the Irish Augustinians in Rome: A summary report", Archivium Hibernicum, #18, 157-63.
*1956: "Irish material in the Augustian Archieves, Rome, 1354-1624", eds. A. de Meijer and F.X. Martin, Archivium Hibernicum, xix (19), pp. 61-134.
*1960: "An Irish Capuchin missionary in politics: Francis Nugent negotiates with James I, 1623-4", Bulletin of the Irish Committee of Historical Studies, #90, pp.1-3.
*1963: "The Irish Volumteers 1913-1915: Recollections and Documents", F.X. Martin (ed.); forward by Eamon de Valera. Dublin 1963.
*1967: "The Course of Irish History", T. W. Moody and F.X. Martin (eds.), Cork and New York.
*1967: "Giles of Viterbo", New Catholic Encylopeida, #6, Washington D.C.
*1967: "Gerald of Wales, Norman Reporter in Ireland", "Studies", lviii, pp.279-92.
*1971: "Jean Waldeby [c.1312-c.1372; Ecrivain, theologien, predicateur] " en "Dictionnaire de Spiritualite", 8.
*1973: "The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945 and the making of the New Ireland", F.X. Martin, and Francis John Byrne, (eds)., Irish University Press.
*1976: "A New History of Ireland: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691: volume III", (eds.)
*1978 "No Hero in the House: Diarmaid Mac Murchada and the Coming of the Normans to Ireland", O Donnell Lecture, xix, National University of Ireland.
*1978: "Expugnation Hibernica: The Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis", A.B. Scott and F.X. Martin, eds., Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
*1979: "The Wood Quay Saga. Part 1: November 1977-Jan. 1979: Bulldozers and a National Monument", in "The Belevederian", Dublin, pp. 215-33.
*1981: "Dublin Universitat 1312-1981", "Theologische Realenzyklopadie", ##9, Berlin and New York, pp.202-04.
*1982: "A New History of Ireland", volume eight, Oxford (editor).
*1984: "A New History of Ireland", volume nine, Oxford (editor).
*1985: "The Rosseters of Rathmacknee Castle, Co. Wexford, 1169-1881", Dublin, Good Counsel Press.
*1986: "A New History of Ireland", volume four (editor).
*1987: "A New History of Ireland", volume two (editor).
*1988: "A New History of Ireland", volume five (editor).
*1988: "Murder in a Medieval Monastery" in "Keimelia: Studies in Medieval Archaeology and History in memory of Tom Delaney". Galway University Press.
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Other

*1988: "Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies presented to F.X. Martin, osa", John Bradley, editor. Boethius Press, Kilkenny, 1988. 0 863 141 439

*2006: "Ireland, England, and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Essays in Memory of a Turbulent Friar, F.X. Martin, OSA", J.R.S. Phillips and Howard Clarke, editors; University College Dublin Press, 2006. 1904558542 9781904558545

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