Thady Connellan
Thady Connellan (Irish: Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn) (1780–1854) was an Irish school-teacher, poet and historian.
Thaddeus Connellan (Thady Connellan; Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn) | |
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 Thaddeus Connellan (James Northcote, 1824) | |
| Born | 1780 |
| Died | 1854 Sligo |
| Nationality | Irish |
Life
He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan. He started a school of his own, but had more success when he became principal of a school established by Albert Blest, a Baptist, in Greenville, Coolaney, in the early 1800s. Like his relative Owen he left the Catholic church and embraced Protestantism. Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.[1][2]
He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.[3]
References
- W. G. Wood-Martin: History of Sligo, town and country. Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1892
- Ó hAilín, T. (1968) "The Irish Society and Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin." Studia Hibernica, No 8., pp 60-78.
- Stephen 1887.
- Attribution
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 21.
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