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Thomson (Derick S.)

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Scottish scholar, professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow (1963–1991); author of Scottish Gaelic poetry; publisher and founder of Gairm.
Thomson, Derick S., “Scottish Gaelic traditional songs from the 16th to the 18th century [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture]”, Proceedings of the British Academy 105 (1999): 93–114.
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Thomson, Derick S. [ed.], The MacDiarmid MS anthology: poems and songs mainly anonymous from the collection dated 1770, Scottish Gaelic Texts, 17, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1992.
Thomson, Derick S., An introduction to Gaelic poetry, 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
Thomson, Derick S., “Macpherson’s Ossian: ballads to epics”, in: Bo Almqvist, Séamas Ó Catháin, and Pádraig Ó Héalaí (eds), Fiannaíocht: essays on the Fenian tradition of Ireland and Scotland — The heroic process: form, function and fantasy in folk epic, 54, 55, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire: An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, 1987. 243–264.
Thomson, Derick S. (ed.), The companion to Gaelic Scotland, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
Aitken, Adam J., M. P. McDiarmid, and Derick S. Thomson (eds), Bards and makars. Scottish language and literature: medieval and renaissance, Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, 1977.
Thomson, Derick S., An introduction to Gaelic poetry, 1st ed., London: Gollancz, 1974.
Campbell, J. F., and Derick S. Thomson [intro.], Leabhar na Féinne: heroic Gaelic ballads collected in Scotland chiefly from 1512 to 1871, vol. 1, reprint ed., Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972.
Thomson, Derick S., “Scottish Gaelic literature: the contemporary situation”, in: J. E. Caerwyn Williams (ed.), Literature in Celtic countries: Taliesin congress lectures, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1971. 79–93.
Thomson, Derick S., “Gaelic learned orders and literati in medieval Scotland”, Scottish Studies 12 (1968): 57–78.
Thomson, Derick S., “The Harlaw Brosnachadh: an early fifteenth-century literary curio”, in: James P. Carney, and David Greene (eds), Celtic studies: essays in memory of Angus Matheson 1912–1962, London: Routledge, 1968. 147–169.
Campbell, J. L., and Derick S. Thomson, Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands, 1699–1700, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
Thomson, Derick S. [ed.], Branwen Uerch Lyr: the second of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, edited from the White Book of Rhydderch, with variants from the Red Book of Hergest and from Peniarth 6, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series, 2, Dublin: DIAS, 1961.
Thomson, Derick S., “Bogus Gaelic literature, c.1750–c.1820”, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Glasgow 5 (1958): 172–188.
Thomson, Derick S., The Gaelic sources of Macpherson’s Ossian, Aberdeen University Studies, 130, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1952.


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