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==History==

Founded and edited by [[Donnchadh Ó Corráin]] of [[University College Cork]] since the early 1980s{{refn|group=note|name=Alpha}} until 2016, Ó Corráin passed on this role to fellow Professor of History [[Dáibhí Ó Cróinín]] of [[NUI Galway]] and Elva Johnston of [[University College Dublin]].<ref name=ils>{{cite journal|first=Freya|last=Verstraten Veach|url=https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=irishliterary20160901-01.2.9|title=Festschrift for a Scholar|workjournal=Irish Literary Supplement|volume=36|number=1|date=1 September 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216002212/https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=irishliterary20160901-01.2.9|archivedate=16 February 2019|quote=He edited the journal ''Peritia'' from its inception in 1980 until handing over the baton recently to Elva Johnston and Daibhi Ó Croinin (who, incidentally, have dedicated the latest volume of the journal to Ó Corrain).}}</ref> Ó Cróinín's work had featured in the first edition.<ref name=reviews_and_short_notices/> [[Patrick Wormald]] also noted two "firsts" in English language scholarship in his review of that edition: Jonas's great life of [[Columbanus]] being given its first "sustained treatment" in the language (by [[Ian N. Wood]]) and a description of "the beginnings of [[Hagiography|hagiographical]] writing in [[Iceland]]".<ref name=reviews_and_short_notices>{{cite news|first=Patrick|last=Wormald|authorlink=Patrick Wormald|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30008029?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents|title=Reviews and short notices|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|volume=24|number=93|date=May 1984|jstor=30008029}}</ref>

''[[The Irish Times]]'' has credited the journal with featuring the work of scholars who might elsewhere have been neglected.<ref name=bibliographic_monument>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/historian-produced-a-bibliographic-monument-to-his-patriotism-1.3311170|title=Historian produced 'a bibliographic monument to his patriotism'|work=[[The Irish Times]]|date=30 November 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712053720/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/historian-produced-a-bibliographic-monument-to-his-patriotism-1.3311170|archivedate=12 July 2018|quote=In 1982, he founded the Medieval Academy of Ireland and established its journal, ''Peritia'', which he edited from its first edition until the year before his death. It became notable for its wide range and intellectual generosity and was a haven for interdisciplinary scholarship, printing works by authors who might not otherwise have been published.}}</ref>