birth_date: 1909-11-01 00:00:00
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name: Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
about: Professor Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson CBE FRSE FSA DLitt was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written circa AD 1100, preserves an oral tradition originating some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard.In retirement, Jackson continued his work on place-names and Goidelic languages. However he suffered a stroke in 1984 that restricted his work.An obituary was published in The Times on 8 March 1991 and in the journal Nomina.
death_date: 1991-02-20 00:00:00