Paul Diverres – ERSKINE

Photograph from the Pan-Celtic Congress in Douglas, Paul Diverres is second from the left. ‘The Isle of Man Weekly Times’ (Saturday 2 July 1938).

Paul Diverres (12 December 1880, Lorient – 25 December 1946, Abertawe) was a linguist and Celtic scholar, originally from Brittany. He moved to Wales in the early 1910s and later worked as the Keeper of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales and as lecturer at the University College of Swansea.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Guth na Bliadhna

‘Le Congres Panceltique de Birkenhead’ [article, FR], Volume XIV, Issue 4 (1917)
‘La Federation Celtique’ [report, FR], Volume XV, Issue 1 (1918)
‘La Federation Celtique’ [report, FR], Volume XV, Issue 2 (1918)

Resources

William Llewelyn Davies, ‘Diverres, Pol (1880-1946),’ Dictionary of Welsh Biography (2001)
‘Paul Diverrès,’ Bibliothèque Numérique Bretonne et Européenne