F.X. Martin O.S.A. (1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 cleric, historian and activist.

Born in County Kerry

County Kerry

Kerry means the "people of Ciar" which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county. The legendary founder of the tribe was Ciar, son of Fergus mac Róich. In Old Irish "Ciar" meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective...

 (of a family originally from County Galway

County Galway

County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

), Martin was raised in Dublin and later joined the Augustinian Order. He later became the first Professor of Medieval History University College Dublin

University College Dublin

University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

, was Chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin 1976-1983, and Chairman of the Dublin Historic Settlement Group. Noted as a leading member of struggle to save the historic Wood Quay

Wood Quay

Wood Quay is a riverside area of Dublin that was a site of Viking settlement. Dublin Corporation acquired Wood Quay gradually between 1950 and 1975, finally announcing that it would be the location of their new offices. Finds made during the initial excavation of the site led to a massive, but...

 archeological site in Dublin during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He died in Dublin. He was a brother of Fr Malachi Martin

Malachi Martin

Malachi Brendan Martin Ph.D. was a Catholic priest, theologian, writer on the Catholic Church, and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute. He held three doctorates and was the sole author of sixteen books covering religious and geopolitical topics, which were published in eight...

. He claimed descent from the Martyn

Martyn

Martyn, or Martin is the surname of one of The Tribes of Galway, Ireland.-Family history:The Martyn family were one of a group of fourteen families of mixed Irish, English, Welsh, French and Norman descent who became the premier merchant and political families in the town of Galway during the late...

 family of Galway

Galway

Galway or City of Galway is a city in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It is the sixth largest and the fastest-growing city in Ireland. It is also the third largest city within the Republic and the only city in the Province of Connacht. Located on the west coast of Ireland, it sits on the...

.

Select bibliography

• 1948: The writings of Eoin Mac Neill, Irish Historical Studies, #21, pp. 44–62.
• 1950: Sanguinea Eremus Martyrum Hiberniae Ord. Eremit S.P. Augustini (1655), edition, Archivium Hibernicum, 15, pp. 74–91.
• 1950: John Baprist Rosseter, osa: Family background and pre-American years, The Past, # 6, 26-44.
• 1955: Archives of the Irish Augustinians in Rome: A summary report, Archivium Hibernicum, #18, 157-63.
• 1956: Irish material in the Augustian Archieves, Rome, 1354-1624, eds. A. de Meijer and F.X. Martin, Archivium Hibernicum, xix (19), pp. 61–134.
• 1960: An Irish Capuchin missionary in politics: Francis Nugent
  Francis Nugent
  Francis Nugent was an Irish priest of the Franciscan Capuchin Order. He was the founder of the Irish and the Rhenish Provinces of the Order.-Life:...
  
   negotiates with James I, 1623-4, Bulletin of the Irish Committee of Historical Studies, #90, pp. 1–3.
• 1963: The Irish Volumteers 1913-1915: Recollections and Documents, F.X. Martin (ed.); forward by Eamon de Valera. Dublin 1963.
• 1967: The Course of Irish History, T. W. Moody and F.X. Martin (eds.), Cork and New York.
• 1967: Giles of Viterbo, New Catholic Encylopeida, #6, Washington D.C.
• 1967: Gerald of Wales, Norman Reporter in Ireland, Studies, lviii, pp. 279–92.
• 1971: Jean Waldeby [c.1312-c.1372; Ecrivain, theologien, predicateur] en Dictionnaire de Spiritualite, 8.
• 1973: The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867–1945 and the making of the New Ireland, F.X. Martin, and Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne is 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...
  
  , (eds)., Irish University Press.
• 1975: Obstinate’ Skerrett, Missionary in Virginia, the West Indies and England, (c.1674–c.1688), Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
  Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
  The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society was founded on the 21 March 1900, at the Railway Hotel, Galway. It promotes the study of the archaeology and history of the west of Ireland. Since 1900, the Society has published 60 volumes of the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical...
  
  , volume 35, 1975 (see John Skerrett (Augustinian)
  John Skerrett (Augustinian)
  John Skerrett , Irish Preacher and Missionary, c.1620-c.1688.John Skerrett was a member of one of The Tribes of Galway. He studied for the clergy in Andalusia, been afterwards ordained as a member of the Augustinian order...
  
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• 1976: A New History of Ireland: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691: volume III, (eds.)
• 1978 No Hero in the House: Diarmaid Mac Murchada and the Coming of the Normans to Ireland, O Donnell Lecture, xix, National University of Ireland.
• 1978: Expugnation Hibernica: The Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis
  Giraldus Cambrensis
  Gerald of Wales , also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times...
  
  , A.B. Scott and F.X. Martin, eds., Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
• 1979: The Wood Quay Saga. Part 1: November 1977-Jan. 1979: Bulldozers and a National Monument, in The Belevederian, Dublin, pp. 215–33.
• 1981: Dublin Universitat 1312-1981, Theologische Realenzyklopadie, ##9, Berlin and New York, pp. 202–04.
• 1982: A New History of Ireland, volume eight, Oxford (editor).
• 1984: A New History of Ireland, volume nine, Oxford (editor).
• 1985: The Rosseters of Rathmacknee Castle, Co. Wexford, 1169-1881, Dublin, Good Counsel Press.
• 1986: A New History of Ireland, volume four (editor).
• 1987: A New History of Ireland, volume two (editor).
• 1988: A New History of Ireland, volume five (editor).
• 1988: Murder in a Medieval Monastery in Keimelia: Studies in Medieval Archaeology and History in memory of Tom Delaney. Galway University Press.
• 1991:

External links

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