Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh

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Br. Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh OSB is an author, medievalist and monk in Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick. His academic work focuses on the history of Irish monasticism.

Career[edit]

He received his doctorate in 1998 from the National University of Ireland. He was a fellow in the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, University College Dublin. In 2013 his monograph The Friars in Ireland, 1224–1540 was awarded the 2013 Prize for Irish Historical Research by the National University of Ireland.[1] Since then he has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Theology, St John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and later a Burns Visiting Scholar in Boston College.[2]

Selected works[edit]

  • The friars in Ireland, 1224-1540, Four Courts Press, Co. Dublin (2010)
  • Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland, Four Courts Press, Co. Dublin (2006)
  • The Franciscans in Ireland, 1400-1534: from reform to Reformation, Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Columba Press (2000)
  • Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Benedicta Ward, SLG, London (2014)
  • The Irish Benedictines : a history, Blackrock, Co. Dublin: The Columba Press (2005)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "News & Events | National University of Ireland". www.nui.ie. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Q&A with Burns Scholar Colmán Ó Clabaigh, O.S.B." www.bc.edu. Retrieved 13 January 2022. in 2-016