Richard Irvine Best
Best was director of the National Library from 1929 to 1940 . He was Senior Professor of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from its establishment in 1940 . He was elected president of the Royal Irish Academy from 1943 to 1946 . He served as chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission from 1948 to 1956 and was an honorary fellow of the Bibliographical Society of Ireland . 
<triplet> Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies <subj> 1940 <obj> inception