Michael Dunne was born in Dublin in 1962. His university education took place in Dublin and Rome. As well as living in both Ireland and Italy, he spent some time as a student in France. After graduating from UCD in 1985, he went to Italy as a research assistant with the Index Thomisticus. While in Italy, he also embarked upon the project of researching some of Ireland’s mediaeval university philosophical heritage. Beginning with the person of Peter of Ireland (ca. 1200–1265), he undertook the edition of the extant works. These researches formed the basis of his doctoral thesis, which was later published. This interest continues with his current research project: the edition of the scholastic works of Richard FitzRalph (1300–1360), an Irishman active at Oxford in the second and third decades of the fourteenth century. Since his return to Ireland in 1993 he has worked in a number of third level institutes. Since 1999, he has lectured at Maynooth. He is currently Head of the Department of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth and is President of the Irish Philosophical Society.