Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Irish historian

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1942

Date of Death: 25-Oct-2017

Profession: historian

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork.
He earned his BA in History and Irish from that institution, graduating in 1964.He was an early Irish and mediaeval historian and published on the Viking Wars, Ireland in the pre-Hiberno-Norman period and the origin of Irish language names.
In addition to his position at UCC, he held academic positions at University College Dublin, Cambridge University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Oslo and Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Balliol College.