Robin Flower
Robin Flower | |
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Born | Meanwood, Yorkshire, England | 16 October 1881
Died | 16 January 1946 | (aged 64)
Occupation(s) | British writer and scholar |
Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946)
Life
He was born at Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School.[3] His parents, Marmaduke and Jane, were from families with Irish ancestry.[1] He was awarded a scholarship to study Classics at Pembroke College, Oxford and graduated with first honours in 1904, before obtaining work as an assistant in the British Museum in 1906.[1] It was during his early years at the museum that he began learning Irish, with the museum authorities supporting his study of the language in Ireland. He married Ida Mary Streeter in 1911.[1]
He worked from 1929 as Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum[4] and, completing the work of Standish Hayes O'Grady, compiled a catalogue of the Irish manuscripts there.
He wrote several collections of poetry, translations of the Irish poets for the
After his death his ashes were scattered on the Blasket Islands.[citation needed]
Works
As a scholar of
He translated from the writings of
References
- Bell, Sir Harold(1948) Robin Ernest William Flower; 1881–1946, in: Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 32 (includes bibliography, pp. 23–27)
Notes
- ^ a b c d "FLOWER, Robin (1881–1946)". ainm.ie. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ "Flower, Robin Ernest William | Dictionary of Irish Biography".
- ^ Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxiv
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/robin-flower Robin Flower
- ^ Gonzalez, Alexander G. & Nelson, Emmanuel S. (1997) Modern Irish Writers: a bio-critical sourcebook; p. 322
- ^ Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid (2000) Locating Irish Folklore: tradition, modernity, identity; pp. 125–26.
- ^ Administrator. "History and Heritage of the Blasket Islands, Ireland – Dingle – A Visitors Guide to the Dingle Peninsula (Corca Dhuibhne) in County Kerry, Ireland from Dingle Peninsula Tourism". dingle-peninsula.ie. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/blaskets.html Blaskets
- ^ McCormack, W. J. & Gillan, Patrick (2001) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture, p. 73
- Chambers, R. W., Förster, Max & Flower, Robin, eds. (1933) The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry
- ^ http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/oen/bede.html Bede
- ^ Flower, Robin (1935) "Laurence Nowell and the Discovery of England in Tudor Times", in: Proceedings of the British Academy; 21 (1935), p. 62
- ISSN 0739-8549; 32). [Kalamazoo, Mich.]: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University; pp. 41–61
- ^ Greenfield, Stanley B. & Calder, Daniel Gillmore (1996) A New Critical History of Old English Literature: with a survey of the Anglo-Latin background by Michael Lapidge; p. 234
- ^ "Literary Encyclopedia | The Seasons for Fasting". litencyc.com. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ "History and Heritage of the Blasket Islands, Ireland". dingle-peninsula.ie. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- Burnett Hillman Streeter, see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~soperstuff/Surrey/surrey_notes.htm.
External links
- Works by or about Robin Flower at Internet Archive
- Translation of "Pangur Bán", a poem by an 8th (? 9th) century Irish monk about his cat