Maurice Sheehy

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Maurice Patrick Sheehy (* 1928 in Dublin ; † August 24, 1991 ibid) was an Irish classical philologist , palaeographer and church historian . He was most recently Professor of Paleography and Late Latin at University College Dublin .

Life

Maurice Sheehy first studied at University College Dublin, later also in France and Italy .

Maurice Sheehy earned particular merit with the publication of the two-volume Pontificia Hibernica , a monumental work, which in a critical edition of almost 500 papal letters addressed to Ireland from John IV (640) to Alexander IV (1261) either completely or at least summarizing presented and commented in detail. The majority of the texts were based on the Vatican registers from 1198 to 1261, but Maurice Sheehy also evaluated numerous manuscripts in Armagh , Dublin, Cambridge and on the European continent itself. In 1963 he received the Irish Prize for Historical Research at his university for the first part of the work.

When Frank O'Connor died in 1966 , he had not yet completed the second volume of his autobiography. Maurice Sheehy, who had known Frank O'Connor personally since 1963, examined all the traditional drafts and texts so that he was able to publish My Father's Son by Frank O'Connor in 1968 . A year later he published a commemorative volume on Frank O'Connor, in which many of his friends and colleagues participated.

At the same time, Maurice Sheehy began work on a new edition of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis , as the version published by Hermann Wasserschleben in 1874 and 1885 only takes one of the reviews into account and has therefore not been in line with the current state of research for a long time. Preliminary work was already carried out here by Joseph C. Wey at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto , but he could not continue this after he took over the office of Canadian provincial superior of the Congregation St. Basil in 1961 . Maurice Sheehy presented the first results of his work on this project in 1968 at a conference on canon law in Strasbourg . Further work followed in 1982 and 1987, but he could not finish his work due to his early death.

Works (selection)

  • English Law in Medieval Ireland . From: Archivium Hibernicum , year 1960, volume 23, p. 167 ff.
  • Pontificia Hibernica: Medieval Papal Chancery Documents Concerning Ireland 640-1261 . Two volumes, MH Gill, Dublin 1962 and 1965.
  • Diplomatica: Unpublished Medieval Charters and Letters Relating to Ireland . From: Archivium Hibernicum , year 1962, volume 25, p. 123 ff.
  • Concerning the Origin of Early Medieval Irish Monasticism . From: Irish Theological Quarterly , born 1962, volume 29, p. 136 ff.
  • Influences of Ancient Irish Law on the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis . From: Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Strasbourg, 3–6 September 1968 , edited by Stephan Kuttner and Ken Pennington , Monumenta iuris canonici , Series C, Subsidia 6, Vatikanstadt 1971, pp. 31–41.
  • The platonist . From: Michael / Frank: Studies on Frank O'Connor. With a bibliography of his writing. , edited by Maurice P. Sheehy, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1969, pp. 121-128.
  • When The Normans Came To Ireland . Mercier Press, Cork 1975, 1998 reissue: ISBN 1-85635-267-6 .
  • The Collectio Canonum Hibernensis - a Celtic Phenomenon . From: The Irish and Europe in the Early Middle Ages , edited by Heinz Löwe, Part 1, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-915470-1 , pp. 524-535.
  • The Bible and the Collectio canonum Hibernensis . From: Irland und die Christenheit, Ireland and Christendom: Bibelstudium und Mission: The Bible and the Missions , edited by PN Chatháin and Michael Richter, Stuttgart 1987, pp. 277–283.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Cf. Michael / Frank: Studies on Frank O'Connor , p. 203
  2. ↑ Irish Times , Aug. 26, 1991, p. 22, Deaths ; Irish Times, Aug 27, 1991, p. 2, Death of UCD professor ; Information on the author on the back of Maurice Sheehy's book: When The Normans Came To Ireland . Mercier Press, Cork 1998, ISBN 1-85635-267-6 .
  3. ↑ a b See the review by Leonard E. Boyle, published in Speculum 42,3 (1967) 554-556. Quotation: This work of Dr Sheehy, of University College, Dublin, is the most important documentary contribution to the history of the Church in mediaeval Ireland since the appearance of Theiner's 'Vetera monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum historiam illustrantia' (Rome, 1864).
  4. ^ Frank O'Connor: My Father's Son . Macmillan and Company, 1968, later paperback by The Blackstaff Press, Belfast 1994, ISBN 0-85640-522-1 .
  5. ↑ Cf. Hubert Mordek : Canon Law and Reform in the Franconian Empire . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, p. 259. For more on JC Wey see 1822: Before & After ( Memento from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b c See Periodical Index Online, http://pio.chadwyck.co.uk/
  7. ↑ a b See the bibliography on pp. 79–80 in Lotte Kéry: Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (approx. 400–1140) , ISBN 0-8132-0918-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sheehy, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sheehy, Maurice Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish classical philologist, paleographer and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1991
Place of death Dublin