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The Gathering of Clan O'Byrne at the Woodenbridge.

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Our  Chairman the well known Wicklow and Byrne Clan  historian Dr. Emmett O'Byrne will give a talk  on Saturday morning 5th Oct.
 His talk will range over the entire origins of the Byrne Clan , from early times in west Leinster, onto mid Leinster and on into the wilds of Glenmalure, along the Wicklow coastline and  on up to the Royal inauguration site of the Byrne Chieftains on the Downes Hill in North Wicklow.
His talk will be well illustrated showing the rich heritage of the Byrnes of Croch Branach.

 Dr. Emmett O'Byrne.

Emmett O'Byrne (born 30 November 1973) is an Irish historian whose primary research interests are
the history of Medieval Ireland and Early Modern Ireland, focusing in particular on
Gaelic Ireland. Further research interests  include the development of the common law in Ireland from 1169, competing laws
among the marches of medieval Ireland and the peoples and frontiers of medieval  Europe.
O'Byrne was educated at De La Salle College, Wicklow and at St Peter's College, Wexford. From 1992 to 19955
he read history and classics in University College Dublin, receiving his BA in  1995. He attended Trinity College Dublin to study for an MPhil in medieval  history, completing his masters in 1996. He spent much of 1997 working in  northern Israel on Kibbutz Ga'aton, travelling widely  through the Middle East. In late 1997, he returned to Ireland to begin his
doctoral thesis on the Irish of Leinster 1156-1606 for which he was awarded his  doctorate in July 2001.

During the years 1999-2003, O'Byrne worked as a contributor to the Royal Irish Academy’s forthcoming Dictionary
of Irish Biography
, completing some two hundred and twenty eight  biographical articles on Irish historical figures. Further publications have  appeared in various collections of essays on Irish history and contributions to  the Medieval encyclopaedia of Ireland.
His book War, politics and the Irish  of Leinster, 1156-1606 was published by Four Courts Press in 2003, receiving critical
acclaim in a number of international journals such as Speculum (2005),[2]  The English Historical Review (2005)[3]
and
Celtica (2007).[4] 
In September 2003 he was awarded a post doctoral fellowship at the Michael O'Cleirigh Institute for the Study of
Irish History and Civilisation at University College Dublin, holding that  position until its expiration in late 2006. In the interim years, O'Byrne with  Dr. Edel Breathnach organised a major international conference in 2005 at  University College Dublin entitled "The March in Medieval West, 1000-1500",  attracting several internationally renowned historians. With Dr. Jenifer Ni  Ghradaigh of University College Cork, he has edited the proceedings of this  conference for publication either in late 2009 or early 2010.
In 2006 O'Byrne was appointed historical advisor to the Wicklow 400  Commemoration Celebrations, writing a number of articles in the Wicklow Times and the Wicklow People newspapers. 
Since 2007 he has been employed by Carlow Institute of Technology as a lecturer in  law, having received his BA in Legal Studies from the Dublin Institutes of   Technology in November 2005. In March 2009 he was elected to serve a three year
term on the Academic Council of Carlow Institute of Technology.
O'Byrne is currently completing the biography of Feagh McHugh O’Byrne  (d.1597) and another major work on Irish medieval history for publication.
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