D. A. Binchy

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Daniel Anthony Binchy (1900–1989) was a scholar of Irish linguistics and Early Irish law.

He is celebrated in Brian O'Nolan's poem Binchy and Bergin and Best, originally printed in the Cruskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times and now included in The Best of Myles.

He served as Ireland's ambassador to Germany from 1929 to 1932.