Bibliography

Myles
Dillon
b. 1900–d. 1972

62 publications between 1927 and 1975 indexed
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1975

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Dillon, Myles, Celts and Aryans: survivals of Indo-European speech and society, Simla: Indian Institute for Advanced Study, 1975. xxvi + 153 pp.  

Contents: Preliminary matter (Foreword, etc.) -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Celts -- 3. Sanskrit and Irish -- 4. Court poetry and heroic tradition -- 5. Society, kingship and customary law -- 6. Religion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- List of plates.

Contents: Preliminary matter (Foreword, etc.) -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Celts -- 3. Sanskrit and Irish -- 4. Court poetry and heroic tradition -- 5. Society, kingship and customary law -- 6. Religion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- List of plates.

1973

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Dillon, Myles, “A poem on the kings of the Eóganachta”, Celtica 10 (1973): 9–14.
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Dillon, Myles, “The consecration of Irish kings”, Celtica 10 (1973): 1–8.
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Dillon, Myles, “Vestiges of the Irish dialect of east Mayo”, Celtica 10 (1973): 15–21.
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Dillon, Myles, and Nora K. Chadwick, The Celtic realms, 2nd ed., London: Cardinal, 1973.
Internet Archive: <link>

1970

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Dillon, Myles [ed.], Stories from the Acallam, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 23, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970.

1969

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Dillon, Myles, Canice Mooney, and Pádraig de Brún, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1969.

1967

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Dillon, Myles, and Nora K. Chadwick, The Celtic realms, 1st ed., London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

1966

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Dillon, Myles, “Ceart Uí Néill”, Studia Celtica 1 (1966): 1–18.

1963

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Dillon, Myles, “Laud Misc. 610”, Celtica 6 (1963): 135–155.
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Dillon, Myles, “Professor Michael A. O'Brien, 1896–1962”, Celtica 6 (1963): v–vi.
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Dillon, Myles, “Notes from Dunquin, Co. Kerry”, Celtica 6 (1963): 193.
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Dillon, Myles, “History of the preverb to”, Éigse 10:2 (1961–1963): 120–126.

1962

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Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights, Irish Texts Society, 46, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1962.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

1961

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Dillon, Myles, “The inauguration of O’Conor”, in: J. A. Watt, J. B. Morrall, and F. X. Martin (eds), Medieval studies presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S. J., Dublin: The Three Candles, 1961. 186–202.

1960

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Dillon, Myles (ed.), Celtica 5 — Richard Irvine Best memorial volume (1960), Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Dillon, Myles, “Laud Misc. 610”, Celtica 5 (1960): 64–76.

1959

edited work
Dillon, Myles (ed.), Irish sagas, Thomas Davis Lectures, Dublin, 1959.  
Reprinted in ?1970 by Mercier Press, Cork.
Reprinted in ?1970 by Mercier Press, Cork.
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Dillon, Myles, “Tochmarc Étaíne”, in: Myles Dillon (ed.), Irish sagas, Dublin, 1959. 11–23.

1958

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Myles Dillon, “[Review of: William W. Heist, The fifteen signs before Doomsday (1952)]”, in: Celtica 4 (1958).
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Dillon, Myles, “On the date and authorship of the Book of Rights”, Celtica 4 (1958): 239–249.
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Dillon, Myles, “Scél saltrach na rann”, Celtica 4 (1958): 1–43.

1956

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Dillon, Myles, “On the syntax of the Irish verb”, Transactions of the Philological Society 54 (1955, 1956): 104–116.

1955

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Dillon, Myles, “A note on the texts of Cath Maige Rath preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan”, Éigse 7:3 (1955): 199–201.

1954

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Dillon, Myles [ed.], Early Irish society, Irish Life and Culture, 8, Dublin, 1954.

1953

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OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Robin Flower, and Myles Dillon, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols, London: British Museum, 1926–1953.
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Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn: corrigenda”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 7 (1953): 88.
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Dillon, Myles [rev.], and Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 3, London: British Museum, 1953.  
Index to the volumes by Standish Hayes O'Grady and Robin Flower.
Internet Archive: <link>  : View in Mirador
Index to the volumes by Standish Hayes O'Grady and Robin Flower.
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Dillon, Myles [ed.], Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953.  
Edition based on LU.
CELT – edition: <link>
Edition based on LU.

1952

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Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The taboos of the kings of Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 54 C (1951–1952): 1–36.  
comments: Paper read on 14 June, 1948
comments: Paper read on 14 June, 1948
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Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The story of the finding of Cashel”, Ériu 16 (1952): 61–73.

1949

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Dillon, Myles, “The lamentation of Oilill Ólom”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6:1 (1947, 1949): 1–10.
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Sjoestedt, Marie-Louise, Gods and heroes of the Celts, tr. Myles Dillon, original title: Dieux et héros des Celtes, London: Methuen, 1949.  

Chapters: I. The Mythological Period -- II. The Gods of the Continental Celts -- III. The Mother-Goddesses of Ireland -- IV. The Chieftain Gods of Ireland -- V. The Feast of the First of November (Samain) -- VI. The Hero of the Tribe -- VII. The Hero outside the Tribe.

Chapters: I. The Mythological Period -- II. The Gods of the Continental Celts -- III. The Mother-Goddesses of Ireland -- IV. The Chieftain Gods of Ireland -- V. The Feast of the First of November (Samain) -- VI. The Hero of the Tribe -- VII. The Hero outside the Tribe.

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Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6 (1949): 139–175.

1948

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Dillon, Myles, Early Irish literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
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Dillon, Myles, “Celtic and other Indo-European languages”, Transactions of the Philological Society 46 (1947, 1948): 15–24.

1947

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Dillon, Myles, “The Hindu act of truth in Celtic tradition”, Modern Philology 44:3 (Feb., 1947): 137–140.
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Dillon, Myles, “The archaism of Irish tradition [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture]”, Proceedings of the British Academy 33 (1947): 245–264.

1946

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Dillon, Myles, “The Yew of the Disputing Sons”, Ériu 14 (1946): 154–165.

1945

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Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The death of Mac Con”, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340–345.
TLH – edition: <link> TLH – translation: <link>
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Dillon, Myles, “The negative and intensive prefixes in Irish and the origin of Modern Irish an ‘very; great’”, Transactions of the Philological Society 43 (1944, 1945): 94–107.
Internet Archive: <link>
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Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The Lecan text of the Battle of Cenn Abrat”, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 10–15.
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Dillon, Myles, “The Wooing of Becfhola and the stories of Cano, son of Gartnán”, Modern Philology 43:1 — Studies in honor of Tom Peete Cross (August, 1945): 11–17.

1944

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Dillon, Myles, “The sigmatic forms of the Old Irish verb”, Transactions of the Philological Society 42 (1943, 1944): 40–53.
Internet Archive: <link>
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Dillon, Myles, “The manuscript tradition of the Testament of Catháer Már”, in: Sylvester OʼBrien [ed.], Measgra i gcuimhne Mhichíl Uí Chléirigh .i. Miscellany of historical and linguistic studies in honour of Brother Michael Ó Cléirigh, O.F.M., Chief of the Four Masters, 1643-1943, Dublin, 1944. 201–209.

1940

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Dillon, Myles, “An Irish manuscript in the Henry E. Huntington library”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 285–304.
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Dillon, Myles, “An Arran folktale”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 7–13.
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Dillon, Myles, “An Irish manuscript in the John Rylands Library (Irish MSS. 10)”, 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. 23–24.
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Ó Tuathail, Éamonn, Tomás Ó Cléirigh, Myles Dillon, Shán Ó Cuív, Patrick Moran, Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Colm Ó Lochlainn, Martin A. Freeman, H. Morris, and J. L. Campbell, “Ceartúchán agus tuille eólais”, Éigse 1:4 (geimhreadh 1939 1939, 1939–1940): 305–309.

About the author

Fischer, Joachim, and John Dillon (eds), The correspondence of Myles Dillon, 1922-1925: Irish-German relations and Celtic studies, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999..
Foster, Idris L., “Myles Dillon”, Studia Celtica 10–11 (1975–1976): 412–416..
Bachellery, Édouard, “Myles Dillon (1900-1972)”, Études Celtiques 14:1 (1974–1975): 276–279..
Binchy, D. A., Suniti Kumar Chatterji, and V. Rhagavan, “[Preliminary:] Foreword; Professor Myles Dillon (1900-1972): a brief life-sketch; Professor Myles Dillon: Indological and Sanskrit-Irish studies; About the book: Myles Dillon, Indo-European, Indo-Aryan and Celtic studies”, in: Myles Dillon, Celts and Aryans: survivals of Indo-European speech and society, Simla: Indian Institute for Advanced Study, 1975. vii–xxiii..