Ellen Fitzsimon Explained
Ellen Fitzsimon (1805 – 27 January 1883) was an Irish poet.[1] [2]
Biography
Ellen Fitzsimon was born Ellen Bridget O'Connell at Derrynane House, the third child and eldest daughter of Daniel and Mary O'Connell. She was well educated and spoke a number of languages. She was a close political ally of her father.[3] Her poems appeared in Irish Monthly, The Nation, Duffy's Fireside Magazine, the Dublin Review. A single book of poems, Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems, was published in 1863.
On 25 July 1825, she married Christopher Fitzsimon Esq. of Glencullen, County Dublin, who was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and MP for County Dublin. The couple had 13 children:
- Thomas Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Mary O'Connell Fitzsimon (1828-1877), married Henry Edmond Redmond
- Daniel O'Connell Fitzsimon (1829-1844)
- Christopher O'Connell Fitzsimon (1830-1884)
- Henry Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Thomas Fitzsimon (1833-1858)
- Henry O'Connell Fitzsimon (1835-1902)
- Ellen Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Ellen "Eily" O'Connell Fitzsimon (25 January 1838 – 1919), married Charles Bianconi jnr, son of Charles Bianconi[4]
- Maurice Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Kathleen Henrietta O'Connell Fitzsimon (1842-1927), married Lt.Col. George Ludlow Kennedy Hewett
- Maurice "Mossy" O'Connell Fitzsimon, died at 13
- Morgan O'Connell Fitzsimon, died in infancy
Fitzsimon died in London on 27 January 1883 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[5]
Notes and References
- Book: Colman, Anne Ulry. Dictionary of nineteenth-century Irish women poets. Kenny's Bookshop. 1996. 0-906312-44-2. Galway. 174. 35268787.
- Book: O'Connell . Basil Morgan . The O'Connell Family Tracts 1 . 10–11 . 12 March 2020.
- Web site: The Family . Derrynane House . The Office of Public Works . 12 March 2020.
- Book: O'Connell . Mrs Morgan John [née Mary Anne Bianconi] . Charles Bianconi. A Biography, 1786–1875. By his Daughter . 1878 . 158 . en . Mr. Fitz-Simon, of Glancullen, M.P. for Dublin, who married the Liberator's eldest daughter, was another guest, and his daughter afterwards married my brother..
- The O'Connell Papers. Part X . The Irish Monthly . 1883 . 11 . 118 . 219–226 . 20496948 . 2009-2113.
