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Professor Thomas Owen Clancy is an American academic and historian who specializes in the literature of the Celtic Dark Ages especially that of Scotland. He did his undergraduate work at New York University and his Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently at the University of Glasgow where he was appointed Professor of Celtic in 2005.In 2001 Clancy argued that St. Ninian was a Northumbrian spin-off of the name Uinniau (Irish St Finnian) the British missionary to whom St.