Bibliography

Derick S. (Derick Smith)
Thomson
b. 1921–d. 2012

17 publications between 1952 and 1999 indexed
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1999

article
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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1992

work
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.

1989

work
Thomson, Derick S., An introduction to Gaelic poetry, 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

1987

article
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.

1983

edited work
Thomson, Derick S. (ed.), The companion to Gaelic Scotland, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.

1977

edited work
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.

1974

work
Thomson, Derick S., An introduction to Gaelic poetry, 1st ed., London: Gollancz, 1974.

1972

work
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.

1971

article
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.

1968

article
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.
article
Thomson, Derick S., “Gaelic learned orders and literati in medieval Scotland”, Scottish Studies 12 (1968): 57–78.

1963

work
Campbell, J. L., and Derick S. Thomson, Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands, 1699–1700, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

1961

work
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.

1958

article
Thomson, Derick S., “Bogus Gaelic literature, c.1750–c.1820”, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Glasgow 5 (1958): 172–188.

1952

work
Thomson, Derick S., The Gaelic sources of Macpherson’s Ossian, Aberdeen University Studies, 130, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1952.