Life
1900- [Daniel Anthony Binchy; Daniel A.]; Irish scholar; ed. UCD and Munich;
Snr. Prof. DIAS; Irish Minister to Berlin, 1929-32; Church and State
in Fascist Italy (OUP 1941, rep. 1970); Ed. Corpus Iris Hibernici,
6 vols. (1979), on Irish jurisprudence; close friend of Frank O’Connor.
DIW OCIL
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Works
‘The Saga of Fergus mac Léti’, Ériu, 16
(1952); Daniel A. Binchy, ‘The Background of Early Irish Literature’,
in Studia Hibernica, 1 (1961); ed., Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin
(1963); Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship (1970); ed., Corpus
Iuris Hibernici (1978).
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Notes
A pre-Christian survival in mediaeval Irish hagiography in Ireland in
early medieval Europe; ed by D Whitelock; et al., (1982), pp.165-178.
Binchy is called the ‘former of opinion’ in relation to the
idea that early Irish literature is rooted in orality rather than in literary
tradition; see Donnchadh Ó Corráin, ‘Early Ireland:
Directions and Re-directions’, in Bullán: An Irish Studies
Journal, 1, 2, Autumn 1994, p.1-15 [see further under Ó Corráin.]
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