Richard Best This is Me

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1. 1. www.ulsterbiography.co.uk

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   Published on: 5/24/2007   Last Visited: 5/24/2007

   Richard Best was born in Ulster and studied in Paris. He became a renowned Celtic scholar and was Senior Professor of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. He published such works as The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology, The Martyrology of Tallaght, and The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar Na Nuachongbala. He was Director of the National Library and President of the Royal Irish Academy. His major publication is judged to be Bibliography of Irish Philology and Manuscript Literature, Publications 1913 - 1941. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Bibliographical Society of Ireland, had two honorary doctorates conferred upon him, and was awarded the highly regarded Leibniz Medal of the Royal Prussian Academy.

2. 2. rodgers.htm

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   Published on: 1/11/2004   Last Visited: 8/12/2004

   However the published work is not a complete collection of all the portraits omitting, for example, the portrait of Dr Richard Best, Gaelic scholar, linguist and librarian at the National Library mentioned by name in Joyce's Ulysses.