Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin (31 August 1954 – 29 June 2011) was an Irish
medieval historian and
celticist
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.
Career
Mac Shamhráin studied at
University College Dublin
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and
Trinity College Dublin
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. He was then a
research associate at Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh,
NUI Maynooth. Previously, he taught early
Irish history & settlement studies at Trinity,
St. Patrick's College Drumcondra, and NUI Maynooth, where he lectured on the Medieval Irish Studies Programme at the Department of
Old and
Middle Irish
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. Prior to that, he taught History and
Irish at
Belcamp College Secondary School.
In recent years, Mac Shamhráin has led and managed the Monasticon Hibernicum Project (funded by the
Irish Research Council for the
Humanities
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and
Social Sciences
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). His
database
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of
Early Christian
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