DáibhàIarla àCróinÃÂn (born 29 August 1954) is an Irish historian and authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, noted for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table. àCróinÃÂn was Professor of History at NUI Galway and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He specialises in the history of Ireland, Britain and Europe during the Middle Ages and Hiberno-Latin texts.
àCróinÃÂn received a B.A. in Early Irish History from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1975 and an M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from the same in 1977.
While wandering around Padua in the mid-1980s àCróinÃÂn happened upon an example of the Irish 84-year Easter table in a manuscript there - this Easter table, so central to the Easter controversy, had until that time been presumed lost but àCróinÃÂn had found one covering the period AD 438âÂÂ521. For this he received his Ph.D. from University College Galway in 1985; the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto published àCróinÃÂn's work on that seventh-century Hiberno-Latin computistical tract which he had discovered. Alongside Daniel McCarthy, àCróinÃÂn published "The 'Lost' Irish 84-Year Easter Table Rediscovered" in the journal Peritia in the late 1980s, explaining the implications of his discovery for our understanding of the period.
àCróinÃÂn succeeded Donnchadh àCorráin as editor of Peritia at some point in the mid-2010s.
A list of àCróinÃÂn's books follows:
àCróinÃÂn was awarded the Parnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at the University of Cambridge for the year 2017âÂÂ18.
His father was the scholar Donncha àCróinÃÂn (1919âÂÂ1990), and his paternal grandmother was the sean-nós singer Elizabeth Cronin (1879âÂÂ1956).