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Richard Irvine Best
R. I. Best
Born
(1872-01-17)17 January 1872 Derry, Ireland
Died
25 September 1959(1959-09-25) (aged 87) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation
Philologist, Bibliographer, Librarian
Subject
Translations
Notable works
The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology translated (1903)
Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature (1913)
The Martyrology of Tallaght (1931)
Spouse
Edith Best (1906-1950)
Richard Irvine Best (17 January 1872 – 25 September 1959) was born at 3 Bishop Street in Derry, Ireland. He was often known as R. I. Best, or simply Best to his close friends and family.[1][2] He was an Irish scholar, specifically a philologist and bibliographer, who specialised in Celtic Studies.[3]
^de Vere White, Terence (1977). "Richard Irvine Best and His Irish Literary Contemporaries". Irish University Review. 7 (2): 168–183. ISSN 0021-1427. JSTOR 25477173.
^Sayers, William (2006). "Best the Mythographer, Dinneen the Lexicographer: Muted Nationalism in "Scylla and Charybdis"" (PDF). Papers on Joyce. 12: 7–24.
^"Best, Richard Irvine (1872–1959), philologist and bibliographer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64461. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
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