Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954)[1] 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.
Ó Cróinín 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.
[1] Alongside Daniel McCarthy, Ó Cróinín 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.
[7] His father was the scholar Donncha Ó Cróinín (1919–1990),[8][9] and his paternal grandmother was the sean-nós singer Elizabeth Cronin (1879–1956).