Whitley Stokes

Irish texts available on CELT, edited by Whitley Stokes

• The Annals of Tigernach
• The Battle of Carn Conaill [Cath Cairnn Chonaill] and the English translation
• A list of ancient Irish authors
• Félire Óengusso Céli Dé [The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee]
• Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore
• The birth and life of St Mo Ling and the English translation
• Life of S. Féchín of Fore [Betha Féchín Fabair] and the English translation
• The Life of Fursa [Betha Fursa] and the English translation
• Betha Phatraic [On the life of Saint Patrick] and the English translation
• Betha Brigte [On the life of Saint Brigit] and the English translation
• Betha Choluim Chille [On the life of Saint Columba] and the English translation
• The Second Battle of Moytura and the English translation
• The Destruction of Dind Ríg, trans. Whitley Stokes.
• Acallamh na Senórach (Recension I)
• In Cath Catharda: The Civil War of the Romans and the English translation
• Epistola S. Patricii ad Christianos Corotici Tyranni subditos
• Confessio [Confession of Saint Patrick]
• Scéla lái brátha inso sís [Tidings of Doomsday] and the English translation
• Scéla na Esergi inso [Tidings of the Resurrection] and the English translation
• Airdena inna cóic lá n-déc ria m-Bráth [The fifteen tokens of Doomsday] and the English translation
• Cóir Anmann [Fitness of Names].
• The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, trans. Whitley Stokes (LU version).
• Imrum Snedhghusa ocus Mic Ríagla and the English translation.
• Iomramh Churraig Hua gCorra and the English translation.
• The Training of Cúchulainn and the English translation.
• The Gaelic Maundeville and the English translation.
• The Gaelic abridgment of the Book of Ser Marco Polo and the English translation.

Select bibliography of works of Stokes

1830 February 28: born in Dublin; educated St Columba's College, taught by Denis Coffey, from Munster; through his father's interests got to know John O'Donovan, George Petrie and Eugene O'Curry.
1847: entered Trinity College Dublin, graduated B.A. in 1851.
1851 October 9: became student at Inner Temple; called to the bar in 1855; practised in London until 1862 when he left for India visiting Madras and Calcutta.
1859: published "Irish Glosses from a MS. in Trinity College, Dublin" published.
1860: "A Treatise on the Liens of Legal Practitioners" published; as was A Mediaeval Tract on Latin Declension, with Examples explained in Latin and the Lorica of Gildas, with the Gloss thereon and Glosses from the Book of Armagh by the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, for which he received the gold medal of the Royal Irish Academy.
1861: "Powers of Attorney" published.
1862-1865: in India made secretary to the governor-general's legislative council and then secretary to the legislative department.
1864: edited and translated the Cornish mystery "Gwreansan Bys" (Creation of the World).
1865: married Mary Bazely by whom he had two sons and two daughters; Hindu Law Books published in Madras.
1874: edited and translated "The Life of St. Meriasek".
1876: Middle Breton Hours published in Calcutta.
1877-1882: law member of the council of the governor-general.
1877: made C.SI.
1879: appointed president of the Indian law commission; made C.I.E.
1882: left India for London.
1884: married Elizabeth Temple (d.1901).
1887-1888: Anglo-Indian codes (two volumes) published, with supplements.
1889-1891
1909 April 13: died in London.
1910: his daughters present his library of Celtic volumes to University College, London.

Sources:
Dictionary of National Biography

For an obituary of Whitley Stokes by Eleanor Knott, click here.