A list of Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 historians is presented in this article, from the earliest times up to the present day, by historical periods and in alphabetically order for easier reference.

Many of the earlier historians would have been known in their time as: "Irish Men and Women of Learning". A number of those listed below were scholars in different fields: literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, biography

Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

, narrative

Narrative

A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...

s, hagiography

Hagiography

Hagiography is the study of saints.From the Greek and , it refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of saints and ecclesiastical leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though less common...

, grammar

Grammar

In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...

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Early Medieval Era: 5th-12th centuries

• Adamnan, died 704
• Aileran the Wise, died 665
• Banbanus
• Bercanus filius Aedo
• Bernard of Chartres
  Bernard of Chartres
  Bernard of Chartres was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator.- Life :...
  
  
• Brecannus
• Cadac-Andreas
  Cadac-Andreas
  Cadac-Andreas, Irish scholar, fl. 798 – 814.Cadac-Andreas was an Irish scholar at the court of Charlemange who roused the ire of Bishop Theodulphus for lengthy and pedantic approach to exegesis, which he apparently delighted in...
  
  
• Cainchobrach, fl. pre-844
• Candidus
  Candidus
  In Latin, candidus/candida means "clear and white". Candidus became a common Roman cognomen. Candidus may also refer to:- Pen names :*Pen name of Alexander Campbell, Restoration Movement Leader*Pen-name of Loyalist Lt. Col...
  
  
• Cellanus of Peronne
• Clemens the Grammarian
• Cogitosus
  Cogitosus
  -Biography:Cogitosus was a monk of Kildare who wrote the oldest extant vita of Saint Brigit, Vita Sanctae Brigidae, around 650. There is a controversy as to whether he was related to Saint Brigit....
  
  , fl. c. 650?
• Colcu of Clonmacnoise
• Colgu, fl. pre-844
• Cormac mac Cuileannain, died 908
• Cu Chuimne of Iona, died 747
• Cummian
  Cummian
  Cumméne Fota or Cummian was an Irish bishop.-Biography:Cummian was an Irish Bishop and fer léignid of Cluain Ferta Brénainn , was an important theological writer in the early to mid 7th century. He is famous for a Paschal letter which displays his high level of learning...
  
  

• Dicuil
  Dicuil
  Dicuil, Irish monk and geographer, born in the second half of the 8th century.-Background:The exact dates of Dicuil's birth and death unknown...
  
  
• Dominnach, fl. pre-844
• Donatus of Fiesole
• Dub Innse of Bangor, died 953
• Dubhtach mac Mael Tuile, fl. 838-869
• Dubslaine, fl. 891
• Duncaht
• Dungal of Pavia
• Fergus, fl. pre-844
• Finnian of Moville
  Finnian of Moville
  Finnian of Movilla Abbey, Irish Christian missionary, 495–589.-Origins and life:Finnian was a Christian missionary who became a legendary figure in medieval Ireland. He should not to be confused with his namesake Finnian of Clonard...
  
  , died 579
• Gilla Brigte/Gilbert of Limerick, fl. c. 1111
• Iohannes
• Israel Scottus
• Johannes Scottus Eriugena
• Laidcend mac Baith Bandaig, died 661
• Mac Bethad, fl. 891
• Mael Brigte Ua Maeluanaig, died 1138
• Mael Inmuin, fl. 891

• Magister Fergus of Clonard
  Clonard Abbey
  Clonard Abbey was an early medieval monastery situated on the River Boyne, just beside the traditional boundary line of the northern and southern halves of Ireland in modern County Meath...
  
  
• Marianus of Ratisbon/Muredach Mac Robartaig, fl. 1067
• Marianus Scotus of Mainz
  Marianus Scotus
  Marianus Scotus , was an Irish monk and chronicler , was an Irishman by birth, and called Máel Brigte, or Devotee of St...
  
  
• Martianus Hiberniensis
  Martianus Hiberniensis
  Martin Hiberniensis , teacher, scribe, and master of the cathedral school at Laon, 819-875-Background:Martin has been called "one of the greatest of Irish Carolingian scholars."...
  
   of Laon
  Laon
  Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...
  
  
• Mo-Sinu maccu Min/Sinilis, died 610
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni
  Muirchu moccu Machtheni
  Muirchu moccu Machtheni , usually known simply as Muirchu, was a seventh-century Irish historian and Leinster monk.-Works:...
  
  
• Murchertach
• Murethach of Auxerre
• Pseudo-Augustine, fl. c. 655
• Ruben of Dairinis
  Ruben of Dairinis
  Rubin of Dairinis was an Irish scholar. He was, along with Cú Chuimne of Iona, responsible for the great compendium known as Collectio canonum Hibernensis .-Sources:...
  
  
• Secundinus
• Sedulius
  Sedulius
  Sedulius may refer to:* Coelius Sedulius, Christian poet of the 5th century* Sedulius Scottus, grammarian of the 9th century...
  
   (Suadbar) fl. pre-844
• Tirechan
  Tírechán
  Tírechán was a 7th century Irish bishop and biographer of Saint Patrick. Tírechán wrote his untitled memoir sometime after the death of his mentor, Ultan of Ardbraccan, in 657. The work survives in the manuscript The Book of Armagh.Tírechán's account, which J. B...
  
  
• Tuan mac Cairill
  Tuan mac Cairill
  In Irish mythology Tuan mac Cairill was a follower of Partholon who alone survived the plague that killed the rest of his people. Through a series of animal transformations he survived into Christian times, and told the story of his people to St. Finnian....
  
  , fl. pre-579
• Ultan of Ardbraccan
  Ultan of Ardbraccan
  For the brother of Saint Fursey, see Ultan.St. Ultan of Ardbraccan was an Irish saint and Abbot-Bishop of Ardbraccan during the 7th Century CE....
  
  , died 657
• Virgil Maro the Grammerican

Late Medieval Era: 12th-16th centuries

• Adhamh O Cianain
  Adhamh Ó Cianáin
  Adhamh Ó Cianáin was an Irish historian and genealogist.Described in his obituary as "a learned historian" and "a canon" of Lisgoole, "having secured victory of deamon and world"....
  
  , died 1373
• Amhlaoibh mac Fir Bhisigh, fl. c. 1200
• Domhnall na Sgoile Mac Fir Bhisigh, fl.c. 1250
• Donnell O'Coinleisg, killed 1342
• Dubhthach O Duibhgeannain, died 1511
• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh
  Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh
  Gilla Íosa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh was a historian, scribe and poet of the learned Clan MacFhirbhisigh based at Lackan in County Sligo...
  
  , fl. 1390-1418
• Giolla Iosa mac Giolla Iosa Mor MacFhirbhisigh, died 1301
• Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin
  Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin
  Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin, Irish scribe and historian, died c. 1443.A member of the Mac Aodhagáin family of bards, Giolla na Naomh was a professor of Irish in Ormond; he may have acted in a legal capacity for the Earl of Ormond....
  
  , fl. c. 1400
• Lawrence Walsh, fl. 1588
• Maghnus O Duibhgeannain, fl. c. 1390

• Matha Glas O Duibhgeannain, died 1517
• Muireadach Albanach O Dalaigh
  Muireadhach Albanach
  Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh was a Gaelic poet and crusader and member of the Ó Dálaigh bardic family.The Annals of the Four Masters of Ireland, s.a. 1213, tells us that he was the ollamh of Domhnall Ó Domhnaill...
  
  , fl. c. 1220
• Murchadh Riabhach O Cuinnlis, fl. 1397-1411
• Naoise O Duibhgeannanin, died 1561
• Oillan O Maoil Chonaire, fl. c. 1570
• Seaan Mor O Dubhagain, died 1372
• Seamus mac Diarmaid Caoch MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1560-1590
• Sean mac Muiris O Maoil Chonaire, fl. 1480
• Tomas Cam MacFhirbhisigh, died 1432
• Torna mac Torna O Maoil Chonaire, fl. c. 1500

Early Modern Era: 17th-19th centuries

• Aodh O Dalaigh, fl. 1742-1756
• Aodh O Dochartaigh, fl. 1627
• Aonghus Ruadh na nAor O Dalaigh
  Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh
  Aonghus Ruadh na nAor Ó Dálaigh, Irish poet, 1550-1617.Ó Dálaigh was of the Muintir Bhaire sept, and lived at Balliorrone, County Cork.He was employed by Sir George Carew and Mountjoy to lampoon the Irish chieftains and instigate enmity between them. The hostile reaction to his satire "The Tribes...
  
  , died 1617
• Baothghalach Ruadh Mac Aodhagain, fl. c.1628
• Bernadin O Clerigh, fl. 1636
• James Ussher
  James Ussher
  James Ussher was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–56...
  
  , Archbishop of Armagh
  Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)
  The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh is the ecclesiastical head of the Church of Ireland, the metropolitan of the Province of Armagh and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Armagh....
  
  , 1581-1656
• Charles O Conor
  Charles O'Conor (historian)
  Charles O'Conor Don, The O'Conor Don, Prince of Connacht of Belanagare was an Irish writer and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century...
  
  , 1710-1791
• Charles Owen O Conor Don, 1838-1905
• Conchabhar Mac Bruaideadha, fl. 1636
• Connall Mac Eochagain, fl. 1627
• Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh
  Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
  Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery.-Life and work:Ó Cléirigh was a son of Diarmaid Ó Cléirigh, and thus a third-cousin once removed to Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, whom he assisted in compiling the Annals of the Four...
  
  , c. 1662/1664
• Cu Choigriche O Cleirigh, fl. 1627-1636
• Daibhidh O Duibhghennain, fl.1651-1696/1706
• Dr. John Lynch, 1599-c. 1677
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1643-1671
• Edward Ledwitch, 1738-1823
• Eoin O Gnimh
  Eoin Ó Gnímh
  Eoin Ó Gnímh, Irish poet and manuscript collector, fl. December 1699.Ó Gnímh was a member of a hereditary learned family based at Larne, County Antrim, who had being bard for the O'Neills. He was responsible for preserveing a number of manuscripts compiled or collected by Dubhaltach Mac...
  
  , fl. 1699

• Eugene Curry, 1794-1862
• Fear Dorcha MacFhirbhisigh, fl. c. 1600?
• Fearfeasa O Maoilchonaire, fl. 1627-1636
• Flann mac Aodhagain, died c. 1643
• Fr. Brendan O Conor, OFM, fl. c. 1630
• John Colgan
  John Colgan
  John Colgan was an Irish hagiographer and historian.-Life:...
  
  , OFM, 1592-1657
• Fr. John Francis Shearman, 1830-1885
• Luke Wadding
  Luke Wadding
  Luke Wadding was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian.-Life:Wadding was born in 16 October 1588 at Waterford to Walter Wadding of Waterford, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Anastasia Lombard . Educated at the school of Mrs...
  
  , OFM, 1588-1657
• George Petrie, 1790-1866
• Gillia Isa Mor mac Dubhaltach Mor MacFhirbhisigh, died 1643
• Henry MacCarrick, fl. 1700-1708
• James Hardiman
  James Hardiman
  James Hardiman , also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. The university library now bears his name...
  
  , 1782-1855
• John O'Donovan
  John O'Donovan (scholar)
  John O'Donovan , from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland.-Life:...
  
  , 1806-1861
• John O'Hart
  John O'Hart
  John O'Hart was an Irish genealogist. He was born in Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, Ireland. A committed Roman Catholic, O'Hart originally planned to become Catholic priest but instead spent 2 years as a police officer. He was an Associate in Arts at the Queen's University of Belfast...
  
   1824 - 1902
• Sylvester O'Halloran
  Sylvester O'Halloran
  Sylvester O'Halloran was an Irish surgeon with an abiding interest in Gaelic poetry and history...
  
   1728-1807
• Lughaidh O Cleirigh
  Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh
  Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh , sometimes anglicised as Lewey O'Clery, was an Irish Gaelic poet and historian. He is best known today as the author of Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill, a biography of Red Hugh O'Donnell.-Life:...
  
  , fl. 1595-1630
• Major-General James Vallencey, 1721-1812
• Mathghamhain O Duibhgeannain, fl. 1644
• Matthew O Conor, 1773-1844

• Michael O'Clery, c. 1590-1643
• Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne, c. 1610-c. 1694
• Owen Connellan
  Owen Connellan
  Owen Connellan was an Irish scholar who translated the Annals of the Four Masters into English in 1846.-Life:He was born in County Sligo, the son of a farmer who claimed descent from Lóegaire mac Néill, High King of Ireland in the fifth century. He studied Irish literature and obtained employment...
  
  , 1800-1869
• Peregrine O'Duignan
  Peregrine O'Duignan
  Peregrine O'Duignan was an Irish clergyman and historian.Born Cú Coigriche mac Tuathal Ó Duibhgeannain, presumably about or after 1590, his name was Latinized to Pereginus when he took holy orders in the Franciscan Order based at Leuven...
  
  , fl. 1627-1636
• Rev. Charles O Conor, 1767-1828
• Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh
  Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh
  Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh, King of Iar Connacht and Chief of the Name, fl. 1244-1273.-Biography:Ruaidhri was a brother of the preceding chief, Morogh...
  
  , 1629-1716/1718
• Ruaidhri Ruadh Mac Diarmada, fl. c. 1760
• Seamus Bacach Mag Uidhir, fl. 1712-1729
• Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating
  Geoffrey Keating
  Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian. He was born in County Tipperary c. 1569, and died c. 1644...
  
  , died 1643
• Sir James Ware
  Sir James Ware
  Sir James Ware was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Castle Street, Dublin, Ware was the eldest son of James Ware, who arrived in Ireland in 1588 as a secretary to Lord Deputy FitzWilliam. His father was knighted by King James I, was elected M.P...
  
  , 1594-1666
• Sir John Thomas Gilbert
  John Thomas Gilbert
  Sir John Thomas Gilbert was an Irish archivist, antiquarian and historian.-Life:John Thomas Gilbert was the second son of John Gilbert, an English Protestant, who was Portuguese consul in Dublin, and Marianne Gilbert, an Irish Catholic, daughter of Henry Costello. He was born in Jervis Street,...
  
  , 1829-1898
• Sir William Petty, 1623-1687
• Standish O'Grady
  Standish O'Grady
  Standish O'Grady may refer to:* Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore , Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland* Standish O'Grady , Irish-Canadian poet and priest...
  
  , 1832-1915
• Tadhg mac Daire Mac Bruaideadha, fl. 1616-1652
• Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire
  Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire
  Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire was an Irish poet.A member of the Ó Maolconaire bardic family of Connacht, Tuileagna is known from a number of extant works, including Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann, addressed to Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Speaker of the third parliament...
  
  , fl. 1638-1673
• Whitley Stokes, 1830-1909
• William Lecky
  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  William Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner....
  
   1838-1903

Modern historians

• James Auchmuty
  James Auchmuty
  James Johnston Auchmuty was an Irish born historian.After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, he moved to Australia.He was the first vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle, Australia.-References:...
  
  , 1909-1981
• Thomas Bartlett
  Thomas Bartlett (historian)
  Thomas Bartlett MRIA is an Irish historian and author. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of History at University College Dublin and more recently holds a Chair in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen.-Academic life:...
  
  
• J. C. Beckett
• Lord Bew
• D. A. Binchy
  D. A. Binchy
  Daniel Anthony Binchy was a scholar of Irish linguistics and Early Irish law.From 1919-20 he was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society...
  
  , 1899-1989
• Martin J. Blake
  Martin J. Blake
  Martin J. Blake, Irish historian, died c.1930.Blake was a descendant of one of The Tribes of Galway, and some of his most nothworthy work was the publication, in two volumes, of much of the extant documents of the Blake family of Galway from 1315 to the 18th century...
  
  , 1853-1931
• Terence Brown
• Ann Buckley
  Ann Buckley
  Ann Buckley is an Irish historian and musicologist.Buckley holds a B.Mus., M.A. , Doctoraal and a Ph.D. . Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin...
  
  
• Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne is an Irish historian.Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II...
  
  
• Nicholas Canny
  Nicholas Canny
  -Life and work:Born at Clifden on 4 January 1944 to Cecil Canny and Helen Joyce, he was educated at Kilfenora national school, St. Flannan's College, Ennis, and University College Galway from where he graduated with a B.A. in 1964, and an M.A. in 1967...
  
  
• James Carney, 1914-1989
• Helena Concannon
  Helena Concannon
  Helena Concannon was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, historian, author and language scholar.She was Professor of History at University College Galway...
  
  , 1878-1952
• R.V. Comerford
  Vincent Comerford
  Richard Vincent Comerford, known generally as Vincent Comerford, is a professor of Irish history at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth who retired in January 2010...
  
  
• Tim Pat Coogan
  Tim Pat Coogan
  Timothy Patrick Coogan is an Irish historical writer, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He served as editor of the Irish Press newspaper from 1968 to 1987...
  
  
• John de Courcy Ireland
  John de Courcy Ireland
  John de Courcy Ireland was an Irish maritime historian and political activist.-Biography:Born in Lucknow, India, where his County Kildare native father served in the British Army, he was educated at Marlborough College, Oxford University and Trinity College Dublin, where he was awarded a PhD in 1951...
  
  , 1911-2006
• Louis Cullen
  Louis Cullen
  Louis Michael Cullen is an Irish historian, academic and author, specialising in economic history, who has also worked as an Irish diplomat....
  
  
• Bernadette Cunningham
• John Cunningham
• Edmund Curtis
  Edmund Curtis
  Edmund Curtis , was born in Lancashire to Irish parents. He worked in a rubber factory until he was 15 when he continued with his education...
  
  , 1881-1943
• Maurice Curtis
• James R. Dinneen
• Fr. Patrick Dinneen SJ, 1860-1934
• Ryan Dinneen
• Margaret Emmeline Dobbs, died 1962
• Mary Donovon-O'Sullivan, 1887-1966
• Terence Dooley
• Eamonn Duffy
• Owen Dudley Edwards
  Owen Dudley Edwards
  Owen Dudley Edwards was born in Dublin, Ireland in July 1938. He is the son of Professor Robert Dudley Edwards and brother to the Irish writer, Ruth Dudley Edwards....
  
  
• Robin Dudley Edwards

• Marianne Elliott
  Marianne Elliott
  For the theatre director, see Marianne Elliott .Marianne Elliott is an Irish historian....
  
  
• Ronan Fanning
  Ronan Fanning
  Professor Ronan Fanning, MRIA, is an Irish historian. He is Professor emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of Archives at the School of History and Archives . A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is a member of the board of the Directory of Irish Biography.and the...
  
  
• Brian Farrell
  Brian Farrell
  Brian Farrell is an Irish author, journalist, academic & broadcaster.-Early life:Although born in Manchester, England, Farrell moved to Dublin, Ireland during the Second World War. He was educated in Ireland at , Dublin, University College Dublin and Harvard University in the United States...
  
  
• Diarmaid Ferriter
  Diarmaid Ferriter
  Diarmaid Ferriter is an Irish author, historian, and university lecturer. He has authored several books on the subject of Irish history. Diarmaid attended St. Benildus College in Kilmacud in Dublin.-Career:...
  
  
• Roy Foster
  R. F. Foster (historian)
  Robert Fitzroy Foster FBA FRHistS FRSL - generally known as Roy Foster - is the Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford in the UK.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Tom Garvin
  Tom Garvin
  Tom Christopher Garvin is an Irish political scientist and historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Politics in University College Dublin. He retired from lecturing duties in August 2008. He is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.Garvin is a graduate...
  
  
• Joe Graham
  Joe Graham
  Anthony Joseph "Joe" Graham , is a Belfast-based Irish writer and historian. He founded Rushlight: The Belfast Magazine in 1972....
  
   1944-
• Aubrey Gwynn
  Aubrey Gwynn
  -Life:He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of theology at Trinity College Dublin. Gwynn converted to Roman Catholicism at age 10, when his mother was received into the Catholic Church.. He attended the Jesuit-run Clongowes...
  
  , SJ, 1892-1983
• Edward J. Gwynn, 1868-1941
• Stephen Gwynn, 1864-1950
• Brian Hanley (historian)
• Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
  Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy
  Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy was an Irish historian born in Galway. He attended University College Galway and served as auditor of the College's Literary and Debating Society in the 1931/1932 academic year...
  
  , 1911-1975
• Fr. Edmond Hogan SJ, 1831-1917
• Kathleen Hughes
  Kathleen Hughes (historian)
  Kathleen Winifred Hughes, born 8 September 1926 in Middlesbrough, died 20 April 1977, was an English historian, her specialisation was Irish ecclesiastical history, particularly the early Christian Church in Ireland....
  
  , 1926-1977
• James Kelly
  James Kelly (historian)
  James Kelly MRIA is a professor of Irish history, specialising in the period 1700–1850, and is a prolific author, who also edits several learned journals....
  
   (1959- )
• Colm Lennon
• F. S. L. Lyons
  F. S. L. Lyons
  Francis Stewart Leland Lyons was one of Ireland's premier historians.-Biography:Lyons was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1923, but soon moved to Boyle in County Roscommon where his father was a bank official...
  
  
• Proinsias Mac Cana
• Dermot MacDermot
  Dermot MacDermot
  Sir Dermot MacDermot , Prince of Coolavin, Chief of the Name, head of the MacDermot clan, and a descendant of the Kings of Moylurg....
  
  , died 1989
• Edward MacLysaght
  Edward MacLysaght
  Edward MacLysaght was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames and made him well known to all those researching their family past.-Early life:Edward was born in Flax Bourton...
  
  , 1887-1986
• Eoin MacNeill
  Eoin MacNeill
  Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist, revolutionary and politician. MacNeill is regarded as the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history. He was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture, going on to establish the Irish Volunteers...
  
  , 1867-1945
• Gearóid Mac Niocaill
  Gearóid Mac Niocaill
  Gearóid Mac Niocaill was one of the foremost twentieth-century scholars and interpreters of late medieval Irish tracts and professor of history at NUI Galway from 1977 until his retirement in 1997. His publication of key late medieval manuscripts in Latin and, especially, Irish restricted his...
  
  
• Gearóid Mac Eoin
  Gearóid Mac Eoin
  Gearóid Mac Eoin is an Irish academic whose studies have focused especially on aspects of Irish language, literature and history.-Background and education:...
  
  
• F. X. Martin
  F. X. Martin
  F.X. Martin O.S.A. , was an Irish cleric, historian and activist.Born in County Kerry , Martin was raised in Dublin and later joined the Augustinian Order...
  
  , 1922-2000
• Carmel McCaffrey
  Carmel McCaffrey
  Carmel McCaffrey was born in Dublin, Ireland and teaches Irish history and Irish literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a frequent lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She founded and edited the literary review Wild About Wilde dedicated to the works of the...
  
  
• Augustine McCurdy
• Robert B. McDowell
• Hiram Morgan, 1960-
• Kathleen Mulchrone, 1895-1973
• Gerard Murphy

• Kenneth Nicholls
  Kenneth Nicholls
  Kenneth W. Nicholls Irish academic and historian is one of the most widely respected Irish historians of the twentieth century. He came to national and international prominence as the author of the seminal Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, first published in 1972, and reprinted 2003...
  
  
• Kevin B. Nowlan
• Emmet O'Connor
• Tomás Ó Conceanáinn
• Donnchadh Ó Corráin
  Donnchadh Ó Corráin
  Donnchadh Ó Corráin is an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. He is an early Irish and mediaeval historian and has published on the Viking Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman period and the origin of Irish language names.-Works:Ó Corráin's...
  
  
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín is an academic Irish historian, the current Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway . M.Phil., Ph.D. , and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a grandson of Elizabeth Cronin , an Irish traditional singer...
  
  
• Patrick Denis O'Donnell
  Patrick Denis O'Donnell
  Patrick Denis O'Donnell, , was an Irish military historian, writer, former UN peace-keeper, and retired Commandant of the Irish Defence Forces. -Background:...
  
  
• Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
  Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
  Pádraig Ó Fiannachta is a renowned Irish language scholar, poet and priest, born in the Kerry Gaeltacht in 1927. He studied at Maynooth, University College Cork and All Hallows, Clonliffe College. He was ordained a priest in 1953. He spent some time in Wales prior to returning to Maynooth College...
  
  
• Cormac Ó Gráda
  Cormac Ó Gráda
  Cormac Ó Gráda is an Irish economist, a professor of economics at University College Dublin, and a prolific author of books and academic papers....
  
  
• Nollaig Ó Muraíle
  Nollaig Ó Muraíle
  Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar. He published an acclaimed edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's Leabhar na nGenealach in 2004. He was conferred with the honour of admittance to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009.-Life and career:...
  
  
• T. F. O'Rahilly
  T. F. O'Rahilly
  Thomas Francis O'Rahilly was an Irish scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly in the fields of Historical linguistics and Irish dialects. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy.-Biography:He was born in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland...
  
  , 1883-1953
• Pádraig Ó Riain
  Pádraig Ó Riain
  Pádraig Ó Riain is an Irish Celticist and prominent hagiologist focusing on Irish hagiography, martyrdom, mythology, onomastics and codicology....
  
  
• Gearóid Ó Tuaithaigh
• Barry Raftery
  Barry Raftery
  Barry Raftery was an Irish archaeologist and Celtic scholar known for his work on the Iron Age in Ireland. He was recognised as Ireland's leading scholar on the archaeology of later prehistoric societies and was appointed to the chair of Celtic archaeology at University College Dublin in 1996...
  
  
• Fr. John Ryan SJ, 1894-1973
• Paul Rouse
• Katherine Simms
• ATQ Stewart
  ATQ Stewart
  Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart was a historian, teacher, academic and a best-selling author on the politics of Ulster and Northern Ireland...
  
  
• Fr. Paul Walsh
  Fr. Paul Walsh
  Father Paul Walsh , was an Irish priest and historian.-Life and career:Walsh was the eldest of the five sons and three daughters born to Michael Walsh and Brigid Gallagher of Ballina , in the parish of Mullingar, County Westmeath. Educated locally, he spent a year at Mullingar's Christian Brothers...
  
  , 1885-1941
• Kevin Whelan
  Kevin Whelan
  Kevin J. Whelan is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Fr. Patrick Wolfe, died 1934