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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Born | 1780 |
Died | 1854 Sligo |
Nationality | Irish |
Occupation(s) | Schoolteacher, translator, poet |
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.[5]
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 21.