Robin Flower

Robin Flower

Robin Ernest William Flower (1881 - 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist and translator from the Irish language.

He was born in Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Presentation secondary school and Pembroke College, Oxford. He worked as "Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts" in the British Museum.

He wrote several collections of poetry, translations of the Irish poets for the Cuala Press, and on Blasket Island. On Blasket he acquired the Irish nickname Bláithín (little flower). [ [http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/blaskets2.html The Blasket Islands on the Southwest Coast of Ireland - Historical Information ] ] The anthology "The Irish Tradition" (1946) is often cited. He wrote his memoirs, "The Western Island". His ashes were scattered on the Blasket Islands.

References

*"Robin Ernest William Flower" (1948) Sir Harold Idris Bell

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External links

* [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/f/Flower,Robin/life.htm Robin Flower ] at www.pgil-eirdata.org
* [http://www.sky-net.org.uk/canals/pangurban/name/ Translation] of Pangur Bán, a poem about by an 8th (? 9th) Century Irish monk and his cat


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