Pathfinders to the past

The tripartite life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909)

Elizabeth Boyle & Paul Russell, editors

This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stok…

Whitley Stokes (1830–1909)

The lost Celtic notebooks rediscovered

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Whitley Stokes was described as ‘the greatest of living Celtic philologists’. After legal studies he practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer and duri…

Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Life and works

Luke Gibbons & Kieran O'Conor, editors

Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare (1710–91) was one of 18th-century Ireland’s greatest scholars. Writing in both Irish and English, his work was clearly influenced…