QUIN, Ernest Gordon (Earnán Ó Cuinn). Dublin 9.6.1910 — 29.8.1986. Irish Linguist also familiar with Sanskrit. Son of Ernest Samuel Quin, From 1934 Lecturer in Sanskrit at Trinity College, Dublin, finally 1975-77 Senior Dean there. Probably taught Irish, too.
Publications: Wrote on Old Irish language and lexicography, e.g. Old-Irish Workbook. 163 p. Dublin 1975.
Sources: *www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1601, apparently full life, but in Irish; scanty stray notes in Internet; writings listed in bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/author.php?AuthorID=245; *Pr. Mac Cana, Eriú 38, 1987, 1-3 & *bibliography by P. Baumgarten, Ibid. 4-8.
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