Daniel Anthony Binchy

Binchy, D[aniel] A[nthony] (1899-1989), scholar of law in Gaelic Ireland. Born in Charleville, Co. Cork, he was educated at Clongowes Wood College, at UCD, and later at Munich and Paris. He became Professor of Jurisprudence and Roman Law at UCD in 1929, then entered the Irish Diplomatic Service. He became Senior Professor at the School of Celtic Studies at the DIAS. His life work was the study of early Irish law, resulting in the Corpus Iuris Hibernici (6 vols., 1978).