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Robin Ernest William Flower (1881 - 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist and translator from the Irish language.

He was born in Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He worked as Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

He wrote several collections of poetry, translations of the Irish poets for the Cuala Press, and on Blasket Island. The anthology The Irish Tradition (1946) is often cited. He wrote his memoirs, The Western Island. His ashes were scattered on the Blasket Islands.

Reference

• Robin Ernest William Flower (1948) Sir Harold Idris Bell

External links

• Translation of Pangur Bán, a poem about by an 8th (? 9th) Century Irish monk and his cat

• 1881 births
• 1946 deaths
• Celticists
• English poets
• Old Leodiensians