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Myles
Dillon
b. 1900–d. 1972

63 publications between 1927 and 1975 indexed
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Celts and Aryans: survivals of Indo-European speech and society
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.

The Celtic realms
Dillon, Myles, and Nora K. Chadwick, The Celtic realms, 2nd ed., London: Cardinal, 1973.
Internet Archive: <link>
Stories from the Acallam
Dillon, Myles [ed.], Stories from the Acallam, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 23, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970.
Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney
Dillon, Myles, Canice Mooney, and Pádraig de Brún, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1969.
The Celtic realms
Dillon, Myles, and Nora K. Chadwick, The Celtic realms, 1st ed., London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights
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>
Early Irish society
Dillon, Myles [ed.], Early Irish society, Irish Life and Culture, 8, Dublin, 1954.
Serglige Con Culainn
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.
Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum
OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Robin Flower, and Myles Dillon, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols, London: British Museum, 1926–1953.
includes: Myles Dillon • Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 3 • Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2 • Standish Hayes O'Grady, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 1
Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum
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.
Early Irish literature
Dillon, Myles, Early Irish literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
The cycles of the kings
Dillon, Myles, The cycles of the kings, London: Oxford University Press, 1946.
Táin bó Fraích
Byrne, Mary E. [ed.], and Myles Dillon [ed.], Táin bó Fraích, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1933.  
comments: Superseded by Wolfgang Meid, Táin bó Fraích (1974).
Internet Archive: <link>
comments: Superseded by Wolfgang Meid, Táin bó Fraích (1974).

Translations

Gods and heroes of the Celts
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.

Works edited

Irish sagas
Dillon, Myles (ed.), Irish sagas, Thomas Davis Lectures, Dublin, 1959.  
Reprinted in ?1970 by Mercier Press, Cork.
Reprinted in ?1970 by Mercier Press, Cork.
Studies in early Irish law
Dillon, Myles (ed.), Studies in early Irish law, Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1936.  
No editor is given in the book itself. Thanks to Neil McLeod for the information that it was D. A. Binchy who by his own admission, edited this collection.
No editor is given in the book itself. Thanks to Neil McLeod for the information that it was D. A. Binchy who by his own admission, edited this collection.

Contributions to journals

Dillon, Myles, “The consecration of Irish kings”, Celtica 10 (1973): 1–8.
Dillon, Myles, “Vestiges of the Irish dialect of east Mayo”, Celtica 10 (1973): 15–21.
Dillon, Myles, “A poem on the kings of the Eóganachta”, Celtica 10 (1973): 9–14.
Dillon, Myles, “Irish púirín ‘hen-house’”, Celtica 9 (1971): 190.
Dillon, Myles, “Ceart Uí Néill”, Studia Celtica 1 (1966): 1–18.
Dillon, Myles, “History of the preverb to”, Éigse 10:2 (1961–1963): 120–126.
Dillon, Myles, “Laud Misc. 610”, Celtica 6 (1963): 135–155.
Dillon, Myles, “Professor Michael A. O'Brien, 1896–1962”, Celtica 6 (1963): v–vi.
Dillon, Myles, “Notes from Dunquin, Co. Kerry”, Celtica 6 (1963): 193.
Dillon, Myles, “Laud Misc. 610”, Celtica 5 (1960): 64–76.
Dillon, Myles, “On the date and authorship of the Book of Rights”, Celtica 4 (1958): 239–249.
Dillon, Myles, “Scél saltrach na rann”, Celtica 4 (1958): 1–43.
Myles Dillon, “[Review of: William W. Heist, The fifteen signs before Doomsday (1952)]”, in: Celtica 4 (1958).
Dillon, Myles, “On the syntax of the Irish verb”, Transactions of the Philological Society 54 (1955, 1956): 104–116.
Dillon, Myles, “A note on the texts of Cath Maige Rath preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan”, Éigse 7:3 (1955): 199–201.
Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn: corrigenda”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 7 (1953): 88.
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
Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The story of the finding of Cashel”, Ériu 16 (1952): 61–73.
Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6 (1949): 139–175.
Dillon, Myles, “The lamentation of Oilill Ólom”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6:1 (1947, 1949): 1–10.
Dillon, Myles, “Celtic and other Indo-European languages”, Transactions of the Philological Society 46 (1947, 1948): 15–24.
Dillon, Myles, “The Hindu act of truth in Celtic tradition”, Modern Philology 44:3 (Feb., 1947): 137–140.
Dillon, Myles, “The archaism of Irish tradition [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture]”, Proceedings of the British Academy 33 (1947): 245–264.
Dillon, Myles, “The Yew of the Disputing Sons”, Ériu 14 (1946): 154–165.
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.
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>
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>
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.
Dillon, Myles, “The sigmatic forms of the Old Irish verb”, Transactions of the Philological Society 42 (1943, 1944): 40–53.
Internet Archive: <link>
Dillon, Myles, “Notes from Inishmaan, Co. Galway”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 210–213.
Dillon, Myles, “An Irish manuscript in the Henry E. Huntington library”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 285–304.
Dillon, Myles, “An Arran folktale”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 7–13.
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.
Dillon, Myles, “The verbal system of Caithréim Cellaig”, Revue des Études Indo-européennes 1 (1938): 45–60.
Gallica: <link>
Byrne, Mary E., and Myles Dillon, “Táin Bó Fraích”, Études Celtiques 2:3 (1937): 1–27.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 2, fascicule 3, 1937: <link> Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 2, fascicule 4, 1937: <link>
Dillon, Myles, “Critheagla Gan Eagla”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 19 (1933): 137–152.
Dillon, Myles, “Bai side a ngiall la Laegaire”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 19 (1933): 153–154.
Dillon, Myles, “Stories from the law-tracts”, Ériu 11 (1932): 42–65.
Dillon, Myles, “Nécrologie: Mary E. Byrne”, Revue Celtique 48 (1931): 479–480.
Gallica: <link>
Dillon, Myles, “Nominal predicates in Irish II”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 17 (1928): 307–346.
Dillon, Myles, “Nominal predicates in Irish I”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1927): 313–356.
Internet Archive: <link>

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

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.
Dillon, Myles, “Tochmarc Étaíne”, in: Myles Dillon (ed.), Irish sagas, Dublin, 1959. 11–23.
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.
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.
Dillon, Myles, “The relationship of mother and son, of father and daughter, and the law of inheritance with regard to women”, in: Myles Dillon (ed.), Studies in early Irish law, Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1936. 129–179.

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..
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