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Osborn (Osborn Joseph)
Bergin
b. 1873–d. 1950

143 publications between 1898 and 1983 indexed
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Works authored

Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
includes: Osborn Bergin • R. I. Best • M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1 • R. I. Best • M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 2 • R. I. Best • M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 3 • R. I. Best • M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4 • R. I. Best • M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5 • Anne O'Sullivan, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6
Strachan, John [ed.], and Osborn Bergin [reviser], Stories from the Táin, 3rd ed., Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1970.  
A collection of selections from the Táin which were first published in the Gaelic Journal.
Internet Archive – second edition (1928): <link> Internet Archive – first edition (1908): <link>
A collection of selections from the Táin which were first published in the Gaelic Journal.
Bergin, Osborn, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Old Irish reader: with a supplement to A grammar of Old Irish, tr. D. A. Binchy, and Osborn Bergin, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1949.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, A grammar of Old Irish, tr. D. A. Binchy, and Osborn Bergin, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946.
Bergin, Osborn, Geoffrey Keating. Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis: The three shafts of death, 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1931.
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Bergin, Osborn [ed.], Sgéalaigheacht Chéitinn. Stories from Keating’s History of Ireland, 3rd ed., Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1930.
Internet Archive: <link>
Bergin, Osborn [ed.], Sgéalaigheacht Chéitinn. Stories from Keating’s History of Ireland, 1st ed., Dublin: School of Irish Learning, 1910.
Internet Archive: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, and Eoin MacNeill, Eachtra Lomnochtáin: Irish text, Gaelic League Series Irish Texts, 7, Dublin: Gaelic League, 1901.  
pp 1-93 (text); vocabulary (95-211). Reprinted in 1903 and 1905. The text, without vocabulary, was reprinted in 1938 and again in 1940.
Internet Archive: <link> – Another printed version, without glossary: <link>
pp 1-93 (text); vocabulary (95-211). Reprinted in 1903 and 1905. The text, without vocabulary, was reprinted in 1938 and again in 1940.

Works edited

Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 5, Halle and Dublin, 1913.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link> Internet Archive – vols 3-5: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 4, Halle and Dublin, 1912.
Internet Archive – vols 3-5: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, and Carl Marstrander (eds), Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer, Halle: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1912.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910.
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Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 2, Halle and Dublin, 1908.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 1, Halle and Dublin, 1907.  
comments: Addenda and corrigenda were published in Kuno Meyer (ed.) • Osborn Bergin (ed.) • R. I. Best (ed.) • J. G. O'Keeffe (ed.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 2 (1908): 80.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link>
comments: Addenda and corrigenda were published in Kuno Meyer (ed.) • Osborn Bergin (ed.) • R. I. Best (ed.) • J. G. O'Keeffe (ed.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 2 (1908): 80.

Contributions to journals

Bergin, Osborn, “Further remarks on Wb. 9a23”, Ériu 17 (1955): 1–3.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts V: metrical faults”, Ériu 17 (supplement, 1955): 259–293.  
Critical edition (final part) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising part V (on metrical faults, pp 259–293)
Critical edition (final part) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising part V (on metrical faults, pp 259–293)
Bergin, Osborn, “Old Irish dligid”, Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1949–1950): 183–189.
Bergin, Osborn, “Some Irish equatives”, Ériu 14 (1946): 140–143.
Bergin, Osborn, “The infixed pronoun after the preposition con-”, Ériu 14 (1946): 153.
Bergin, Osborn, “Ériu and the ablaut”, Ériu 14 (1946): 147–153.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts: III and IV”, Ériu 14 (supplement, 1946): 167–257.  
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising parts III (on irregular verbs, pp 167–250; from TCD 1319) and IV (on abstract nouns, pp 251–257)
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising parts III (on irregular verbs, pp 167–250; from TCD 1319) and IV (on abstract nouns, pp 251–257)
Bergin, Osborn, “White red-eared cows”, Ériu 14 (1946): 170.
Bergin, Osborn, “Varia I”, Ériu 14 (1946): 29–30.
Bergin, Osborn [pseud. Crá Cry Égeas], “Shán Ó Cuív († Lúnasa, 1940)”, Éigse 2:4 (geimhreadh, 1940): 284–285.
Binchy, D. A., and Osborn Bergin [poem], “Rudolf Thurneysen († August, 1940)”, Éigse 2:4 (geimhreadh, 1940): 285–286.
Bergin, Osborn, “Miscellanea: (1) The 2 sg. absolute of berid; (2) O.Ir. foc(c)ul(l); (3) cro- in compounds”, Ériu 12 (1938): 135–136.
Bergin, Osborn, and R. I. Best [ed. and tr.], “Tochmarc Étaíne”, Ériu 12 (1934–1938): 137–196.
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Bergin, Osborn, “Varia. I”, Ériu 12 (1938): 215–235.
Bergin, Osborn, “On the syntax of the verb in Old Irish”, Ériu 12 (1938): 197–214.
Bergin, Osborn, “The native Irish grammarian [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture 1938]”, Proceedings of the British Academy 24 (1938): 205–235.
Bergin, O. J., “An address to Aonghus of Islay [Ceannaigh duain t'athar, a Aonghas]”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 4:1 (1934, 1935): 57–69.
Bergin, O. J., “Address to Séamas Mac Aonghais [Bi ad mhosgaladh, a mheic Aonghais]”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 4:2 (1935, 1935): 136–149.
Bergin, Osborn, “Lenition after cóic in nom., acc., and dat.”, Ériu 11 (1932): 226.
Bergin, Osborn, “On the Kilbonane Ogams”, Ériu 11 (1932): 107–111.
Bergin, Osborn, “A mystical interpretation of the Beati”, Ériu 11 (1932): 103–106.
Bergin, Osborn, “Varia II”, Ériu 11 (1932): 136, 138–149.
Bergin, Osborn, “Old-Irish méite; Old-Irish -tuit”, Ériu 10 (1926–1928): 190–193.
Bergin, Osborn, “Notes on the Würzburg glosses”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 17 (1928): 223–224.
Bergin, Osborn, “Miscellanea: ar-neut, in-neuth; ad-haim”, Ériu 10 (1926–1928): 111–112.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts [II, §§ 88–207]”, Ériu 10 (supplement, 1928–1926): 125–166.  
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising the final part of II (on declension), §§ 88–207
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising the final part of II (on declension), §§ 88–207
Bergin, Osborn, “Unpublished Irish poems XXV — On the breaking up of a school”, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 13:49 (1924): 85–90.
Bergin, Osborn, “Nominative and vocative”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 92–94.
Bergin, Osborn, “A poem by Domhnall Mac Dáire”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 160–174.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts [II, §§ 12–87]”, Ériu 9 (supplement, 1921–1923): 61–124.  
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising part of II (on declension), §§ 12–87
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising part of II (on declension), §§ 12–87
Bergin, Osborn, “Is ónd Athir dó”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 180.
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica IV. The alliteration of th.-”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 80–81.
Bergin, Osborn, “A dialogue between Donnchad son of Brian and Mac Coisse”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 175–180.
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica III. The alleged unvoicing of -dh d-”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 77–80.
Bergin, Osborn, “The magic white in Táin bó Cúailnge”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 159.
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica V. The principles of alliteration”, Ériu 9 (1921–1923): 82–84.
Bergin, Osborn, “Unpublished Irish poems XVII: neglected merit”, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 11:41 (March, 1922): 80–82.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts [I and II, §§ 1–11]”, Ériu 8 (supplement, 1916): i–v, 1–60.  
Critical edition of Irish grammatical tracts I (introductory part, pp 1–36) and part of II (on declension), §§ 1-11 (pp 37–60)
Critical edition of Irish grammatical tracts I (introductory part, pp 1–36) and part of II (on declension), §§ 1-11 (pp 37–60)
Bergin, Osborn, “Bonaventura O'Hussey on the uncertainty of life”, Ériu 8 (1916): 195–196.
Bergin, Osborn, “Irish sirid ‘seeks’”, Ériu 8 (1916): 196.
Bergin, Osborn, “Dorearúasat”, Ériu 8 (1916): 99.
Bergin, Osborn, “Old-Irish conmberad”, Ériu 8 (1916): 160.
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica I: notes on Meyer's Primer of Irish metrics”, Ériu 8 (1916): 161–167.
Bergin, Osborn, “Metrica II: the alleged riming of long with short vowels”, Ériu 8 (1916): 167–169.
Bergin, Osborn, “The lament of the nun of Beare”, Ériu 7 (1914): 240–241.
Bergin, Osborn [ed. and tr.], “The death of Conchobar’s sons”, Ériu 7 (1914): 242–243.
Bergin, Osborn, “Modern Irish teóra ‘limit, border’”, Ériu 7 (1914): 27–29.
Bergin, Osborn, “What brought the Saxons to Ireland”, Ériu 7 (1914): 244.
Bergin, O. J., “Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1 (1912–1913): 35–50, 127–131, 137–150, 220–236.
Bergin, Osborn, “Miscellanea: On some Irish adverbs”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:3 (1912–1913): 187.
Bergin, O. J., “The imperative 2 plural in -igī”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:2 (1912–1913): 73–78, with add. and corr. at the back.
Bergin, O. J., “Miscellanea: suibhisgéal”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:1 (1912–1913): 62.
Bergin, O. J., and T. F. OʼRahilly, “Miscellanea: Fearas Barr”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:4 (1912–1913): 271–272.
Bergin, Osborn [ed. and tr.], “Oided Chuind Chétchathaich annso”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 274–277.
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Bergin, O. J., J. H. Lloyd, and G. Schoepperle, “The death of Diarmuid”, Revue Celtique 33 (1912): 157–179.
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Lloyd, J. H., Osborn Bergin, and Gertrude Schoepperle, “The reproach of Diarmuid”, Revue Celtique 33 (1912): 41–57.
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Bergin, O. J., “The best and worst nail in the Ark”, Ériu 5 (1911): 49.
Bergin, O. J., “Old-Irish suír”, Ériu 5 (1911): 112.
Bergin, Osborn, “The harrowing of hell”, Ériu 4 (1908–1910): 112–119.
Bergin, O. J., “Palatalization”, Ériu 3 (1907): 50–91.
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Bergin, O. J., “Corrigenda et addenda”, Ériu 3 (1907): 207.
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Bergin, Osborn, “The future tense in Modern Irish”, Ériu 2 (1905): 36–48.
Internet Archive – vols 2–3: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link>
Bergin, O. J., “A fragment of Old Irish”, Ériu 2 (1905): 221–226.
TLH – edition: <link> TLH – translation: <link>
Bergin, O. J., “Analogy in the verbal system of Modern Irish”, Ériu 1 (1904): 139–152.
Internet Archive – vol. 1, part 1 (followed by vol. 2): <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1, part 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1, part 2: <link>
MacNeill, Eoin, and Osborn Bergin, “Eachtra Lomnochtáin an t-Sléibhe Riffe”, Gaelic Journal 9 (1898–1899): 231–236, 248–252, 265–268, 279–284, 293–295, 314–316, 330–332, 335–339.
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MacNeill, Eoin, and Osborn Bergin, “Eachtra Lomnochtáin an t-Sléibhe Riffe”, Gaelic Journal 8 (1898): 168–172, 182–188, 198–204, 215–220.
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Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Bergin, Osborn, “A poem addressed to the Blessed Virgin”, in: Séamus Pender (ed.), Féilscríbhinn Torna: essays and studies presented to professor Tadhg Ua Donnchadha (Torna) on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, September 4th, 1944, Cork: Cork University Press, 1947. 60–65.
Bergin, Osborn, “On the alleged declension of adjectives in -amhail”, in: John Ryan (ed.), Féil-sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill: Essays and studies presented to professor Eoin MacNeill on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, May 15th 1938, Dublin: Three Candles, 1940. 1–2.
Bergin, O. J. [ed. and tr.], “How the Dagda got his magic staff”, in: Roger Sherman Loomis (ed.), Medieval studies in memory of Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis, Paris, et al.: Columbia University Press, 1927. 399–406.
Bergin, O. J., “Poems attributed to Gormlaith”, in: Osborn Bergin, and Carl Marstrander (eds), Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer, Halle: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1912. 343–369, 487.  

Includes editions of poems from RIA MS 23 F 16: I. Dubhach sin, a dhúin ní riogh; II. Gáir bháinnsí san tigh si amuigh; III. Ceananndas mairce damh ad-chí; IV. Folamh anocht Dún Chearma; V. lomdha bréid ort a cheirt si !; VI. Uchagān, mo ghalar féain; VII. Cú duine mur nach bhfionntur; VIII. Beir a mhanaigh leat an chois; IX. Trum anocht mh'osnadh, a Dhé !; X. Ro charas tricha fo thrí; and one from RIA MS 23 D 4: XI. Mithid sgur do chaoineadh Néill.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

Includes editions of poems from RIA MS 23 F 16: I. Dubhach sin, a dhúin ní riogh; II. Gáir bháinnsí san tigh si amuigh; III. Ceananndas mairce damh ad-chí; IV. Folamh anocht Dún Chearma; V. lomdha bréid ort a cheirt si !; VI. Uchagān, mo ghalar féain; VII. Cú duine mur nach bhfionntur; VIII. Beir a mhanaigh leat an chois; IX. Trum anocht mh'osnadh, a Dhé !; X. Ro charas tricha fo thrí; and one from RIA MS 23 D 4: XI. Mithid sgur do chaoineadh Néill.

Bergin, O. J. [ed.], “A Middle-Irish fragment of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 63–76.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Bergin, O. J., “A story of Flann mac Lonáin”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 1, Halle and Dublin, 1907. 45–50.
Internet Archive: <link>

As honouree

Bergin, Osborn, T. F. OʼRahilly, and Eleanor Knott (eds), Ériu 16 (1952), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

As honouree

Bergin, Osborn, T. F. OʼRahilly, and Eleanor Knott (eds), Ériu 16 (1952), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy..

About the author

Knott, Eleanor, “Osborn Bergin (1873–1950)”, Ériu 16 (1952): 1–3..
Stern, Ludwig Christian, “Über eine Handschrift Teig O'Dinneens”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905): 535–540..
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