Francis John Byrne - Wikipedia Francis John Byrne From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017)[1] was an Irish historian. Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. After the war, his mother returned to Ireland, where his father, who had survived internment in Japanese hands, returned to take up work as a harbour master. Byrne attended Blackrock College in County Dublin where he learned Latin and Greek, to add to the Chinese he had learned in his Shanghai childhood. He studied Early Irish History at University College Dublin where he excelled, graduating with first class honours. He studied Paleography and Medieval Latin in Germany, and then lectured on Celtic languages in Sweden, before returning to University College in 1964 to take up a professorship. Byrne's best known work is his Irish Kings and High-Kings (1973). He was joint editor of the Royal Irish Academy's New History of Ireland (9 volumes). A festschrift in his honour was published in 1999 under the editorship of his former student Alfred P. Smyth. He retired in 2000, and died in December 2017. References[edit] ^ "Death Notice Of Prof. Francis John Byrne, Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland". RIP.ie. Retrieved 13 April 2018. Select bibliography[edit] Irish Kings and High-Kings. 3rd revised edition, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9 Smyth, Alfred P. (ed.), Seanchas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne. Dublin: Four Courts, 1999. ISBN 978-1-85182-489-2 External links[edit] UCD President's Report 2000 Announcement of Francis J. Byrne's retirement and biographical note Authority control ISNI: 0000 0001 1075 6395 LCCN: n50032952 NKC: jn20031223020 NTA: 069295921 PLWABN: 9810599006005606 Trove: 798316 VIAF: 76330353 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50032952 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francis_John_Byrne&oldid=993513702" Categories: 1934 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Alumni of University College Dublin Celtic studies scholars 20th-century Irish historians 21st-century Irish historians Irish writers Irish scholars and academics People educated at Blackrock College Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Français Galego مصرى Norsk bokmål Português Edit links This page was last edited on 11 December 2020, at 00:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement