Hughes (A. J.): Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808–95): his life and Gaelic proverb collection.
Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast in association with the Folkore Society, 1998. xii + 226 pp.
A reedition, with linguistic notes and indexes, of R. S. Macadam’s Six hundred Gaelic proverbs collected in Ulster, first publ. serially in UJA (1st ser.) 6, 7, 9 (1858-1862); preceded by a biographical account of R.S.McA.
Rev. by
Bo Almqvist, in Béaloideas 68 (2000), pp. 161-172.
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, in StH 30 (1998-1999), pp. 267-268.
Réamonn Ó Muirí, in SAM 18/1 (1999/2000), pp. 299-300.