Bibliography

M. A. (Michael Alphonsus)
O'Brien
b. 1896–d. 1962

25 publications between 1932 and 1983 indexed
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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
Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien [eds.], Togail Troí, from the Book of Leinster, vol. IV, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1966.
Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.
CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>
Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1957. xxi + pp. 471-760.
CELT – pp. 471-638 and 663: <link>
Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1956. xi + pp. 261-470 + 2 pl.
CELT – pp. 400-470: <link>


Contributions to journals

OʼBrien, M. A., and Rolf Baumgarten [ed.], “Old Irish personal names: M. A. O’Brien’s ‘Rhŷs Lecture’-notes, 1957”, Celtica 10 (1973): 211–236.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Short notes”, Celtica 4 (1958): 97–102.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Etymologies and notes”, Celtica 3 (1956): 168–184.
OʼBrien, M. A., “A Middle-Irish poem on the Christian kings of Leinster”, Ériu 17 (1955): 35–51.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Two passages in Serglige Con Culaind”, Celtica 2:2 (1954, 1954): 346–349.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Short notes: [1] omission of no (do), [2] Fear an énais, [3] uchtlach ‘lapful’; littiu ‘porridge’”, Celtica 2:2 (1954, 1954): 350–353.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Short notes”, Celtica 2:1 (1952, 1954): 216.
OʼBrien, M. A., “A Middle-Irish poem on the birth of Āedān mac Gabrāin and Brandub mac Echach”, Ériu 16 (1952): 157–170.
OʼBrien, M. A., “The Old Irish Life of St. Brigit: Part II. Introduction and notes”, Irish Historical Studies 1:4 (September, 1939): 343–353.
OʼBrien, M. A. [ed. and tr.], “The oldest account of the raid of the Collas (circa A. D. 330)”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 3rd series, 2 (1939): 170–177.
OʼBrien, M. A., “The Old Irish Life of St. Brigit: Part I. Translation”, Irish Historical Studies 1:2 (September, 1938): 121–134.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Varia. II”, Ériu 12 (1938): 236–244.
OʼBrien, Michael A., “Varia”, Ériu 11 (1932): 86–93.
OʼBrien, M. A., “Varia IV”, Ériu 11 (1932): 154–171.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

OʼBrien, M. A., “Fled Bricrenn”, in: Myles Dillon (ed.), Irish sagas, Dublin, 1959. 67–78.
OʼBrien, Michael A., “Etymologica”, 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. 87–88.

About the author

Ó Cuív, Brian, “Obituary: Michael A. O'Brien”, Éigse 10:3 (1961–1963): 264..
Dillon, Myles, “Professor Michael A. O'Brien, 1896–1962”, Celtica 6 (1963): v–vi..