F. X. Martin
Francis Xavier "F.X." Martin, OSA (Irish: Proinsias Xavier Ó Máirtín; 2 October 1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish cleric, historian and activist. He was the youngest son in a family of five boys and five girls. All but one of his brothers also became priests: Conor became professor of ethics and politics at University College Dublin, and Malachi was for a while a Jesuit and became a controversial writer.[1]
Born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Francis Xavier Martin was raised in Dublin, and attended Belvedere College, University College Dublin; the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; and Cambridge University. In 1941, he became an Augustinian friar and was ordained a priest in 1952. In 1959, after completing his doctoral thesis at Cambridge, he became assistant in history at University College Dublin and in 1961 Professor of Medieval History.[1]
He was chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin, 1976–83, and of the Dublin Historic Settlement Group, and was noted as a leading member of a well-publicized struggle, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, to save the historic Wood Quay archeological site in Dublin.[1][2] He was also chairman of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland from 1977 to 1981.[3]
He was the author of landmark books on the history of Ireland and of his own Augustinian order.[4]
He died at the house of the Augustinians near Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 13 February 2000, and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.[1][5]
His papers are preserved in the archives of the National Library of Ireland and the National Museum of Ireland.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 UCD Archives
- ↑ National Library of Ireland, "Remembering FX Martin"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Emer Purcell, "News: Professor FX Martin's personal papers handed over to the National Library"
- ↑ A. Simms, "Professor F.X. Martin, O.S.A." in The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 131, 2001, pp. 154–
- ↑ News item on the occasion of his death
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 Baptist 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 Archives, 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 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.); foreword 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, (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, volume 35, 1975 (see John Skerrett (Augustinian).
- 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: Expugnatio Hibernica: The Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis, A.B. Scott and F.X. Martin, eds., Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
- 1979: The Wood Quay Saga. Part 1: November 1977-January 1979: Bulldozers and a National Monument, in The Belevederian, Dublin, pp. 215–33.
- 1981: Dublin Universität 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.
References
- 1988: Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies presented to F.X. Martin, OSA, John Bradley, editor. Boethius Press, Kilkenny, 1988. ISBN 086-31414-39
- 2006: Ireland, England, and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Essays in Memory of a Turbulent Friar, F.X. Martin, OSA, J.R.S. Phillips and Howard Clarke, editors; University College Dublin Press, 2006.
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