Richard Irvine Best

For other people with the same name, see Richard Best.

Richard Irvine Best
R. I. Best
R. I. Best
Born(1872-01-17)17 January 1872
Derry, Ireland
Died25 September 1959(1959-09-25) (aged 87)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationPhilologist, Bibliographer, Librarian
SubjectTranslations
Notable works
SpouseEdith Best (1906-1950)

Richard Irvine Best (17 January 1872 – 25 September 1959) was born at 3 Bishop Street in Derry, Ireland. He was often known as R. I. Best, or simply Best to his close friends and family.[1][2] He was an Irish scholar, specifically a philologist and bibliographer, who specialised in Celtic Studies.[3]

  1. ^ de Vere White, Terence (1977). "Richard Irvine Best and His Irish Literary Contemporaries". Irish University Review. 7 (2): 168–183. ISSN 0021-1427. JSTOR 25477173.
  2. ^ Sayers, William (2006). "Best the Mythographer, Dinneen the Lexicographer: Muted Nationalism in "Scylla and Charybdis"" (PDF). Papers on Joyce. 12: 7–24.
  3. ^ "Best, Richard Irvine (1872–1959), philologist and bibliographer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64461. Retrieved 3 November 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)