Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin
Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin (31 August 1954 – 29 June 2011) was an Irish medieval historian and celticist. Career Mac Shamhráin studied at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. 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. 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 and Social Sciences). His database of Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland from the 5th to the 12th centuries was published online in 2009. He has also published a number of papers on early Irish political and ecclesiastical history, and has contributed over 300 entries to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Mac Shamhráin died in Dublin on 29 June 2011, after a long illness. He continued to write throughout, and completed his final article in hospital on the day of his death. Select bibliography Prosopographica Glindelachensis: the Monastic