and it is strongly connected to the Táin Bó Cúailnge saga. He was married to Maura Morrissey, also an academic and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, who predeceased him in 1975. The couple had a son, Paul, who was a judge in the Irish High Court. Select publications Topographical Poems by Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin and Giolla na Naomh Ó hUuidrain, editor, (1943) Poems on the Butlers of Ormond, Cahir and Dunboyne, AD 1400-1650, editor, (1945) A Genealogical History of the O’Reillys, from Irish of Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, editor, (1950) Studies in Irish Literature and History (1956) The Problem of St Patrick (1961) Early Irish Poetry (1965) Medieval Irish Lyrics (1967) The Irish Bardic Poet (1967) Poems on the O’Reillys, editor, (1970) References Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Celtic studies scholars Linguists from Ireland 1914 births 1989 deaths People from Portlaoise 20th-century Irish historians 20th-century linguists