Thady Connellan Explained

Thaddeus Connellan (Thady Connellan; Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn)
Birth Date:	1780
Birth Place:	Skreen County Sligo, Ireland
Death Date:	1854
Death Place:	Sligo
Occupation:	Schoolteacher, translator, poet
Nationality:	Irish

Thady Connellan (Irish: '''Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn''') (1780 - 1854) was an Irish school-teacher, poet and historian.

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 the Rev. Albert Blest^[1] (father of William Cunningham Blest), a Baptist, supported by the London Hibernian Society in Greenville, Coolaney, in the early 1800s. Like his relative Owen he left the Catholic church and embraced Protestantism, around 1808.^[2] Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.^{[3] [4]}

He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.

Publications

• English - Irish Dictionary intended for use of Schools, Dublin, 1814.
• Seanraite Sholaim a Ghaoidheilge agus mBearla – The Proverbs of Solomon in Irish and English, (1815)
• Litir an Ríogh a nGaoidheilge, ó Shaicsbhearla, 1825.
• An duanaire. Fonna seanma. A selection of Irish melodies, poems and moral epigrams, (1829)

References

AttributionConnellan, Thaddeus. 12 . 21.

Notes and References

1. 'A Memoir Of Albert Blest: For Many Years Agent And Secretary For Ireland Of The London Hibernian Society (1843)' by Maiben Cunningham Motherwell.
2. https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1059 CONNELLAN, Thady (c.1775–1854)
3. W. G. Wood-Martin: History of Sligo, town and country. Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1892
4. Ó hAilín, T. (1968) "The Irish Society and Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin." Studia Hibernica, No 8., pp 60-78.