Colmán Ó Clabaigh is a monk of Glenstal and a historian specializing in the monastic and religious history of medieval Ireland. He is the author and co-editor of several works in this field and his recent publications include contributions to The Cambridge History of Ireland and The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West. His most recent publication (co-authored with Professor Rachel Moss, Trinity College Dublin) is Modest and Civil People: Religion and Society in Medieval Galway.