HISTORIANS from Ireland

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Historians of all time. This list of famous Irish Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Peter Brown (1935 - )

With an HPI of 51.87, Peter Brown is the most famous Irish Historian.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.

2. J. B. Bury (1861 - 1927)

With an HPI of 45.51, J. B. Bury is the 2nd most famous Irish Historian.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

John Bagnell Bury (UK: ; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death.