Theophilus O'Flanagan

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Theophilus O’Flanagan (Irish: Tadgh ó'Flanagáin) (c. 1762 – 1814) was an Irish school teacher, translator, and Irish language scholar.[1]

Born circa 1762 in Tulla, County Clare, son of a hedge schoolteacher of Irish,[2][3] he was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was a Catholic. He earned a scholarship in 1787 with the support of Provost John Hely-Hutchinson.[4] He worked as a travelling school teacher, he set up schools in Carrick on Suir, and on Ormond Quay in Dublin in 1808.[5]

O'Flanagan, along with and , founded the Gaelic Society of Dublin on 19 January 1807, for the promotion and study of the Irish language, with O'Flanagan as its first secretary.[3] Although the Gaelic Society would be short lived, it was the first of several such organizations founded to promote the Irish language, culminating in the Gaelic League in 1892.[6] O'Flanagan died in 1814.

Works[]

  • Translation of the Annals of Innisfallen by Theophilus O'Flanagan[7]
  • Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin, edited by Theophilus O'Flanagan AB, Published by John Barlow Dublin (1808).[8]
  • 'Deirdri, Or the Lamentable Fate of the Sons of Usnach, an Ancient Dramatic Irish Tale, One of the Three Tragic Stories of Eirin:', translation, notes, and observations, by Theophilus O'Flanagan AB, Published by John Barlow Dublin (1808). Also printed in ibid.

References[]

  1. ^ Lesa Ní Mhunghaile. "O'Flanagan, Theophilus", in Dictionary of Irish Biography.
  2. ^ Frehan, Pádraic (2012). Education and Celtic Myth: National Self-Image and Schoolbooks in 20th Century Ireland. Rodopi. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-94-012-0865-9.
  3. ^ a b O'Higgins, Laurie (2017). The Irish Classical Self: Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Classical Presences. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0191079825.
  4. ^ O’FLANAGAN, Theophilus (c.1760–1814) www.anim.ie
  5. ^ A Life - Theophilus O'Flanagan www.ricosco.net
  6. ^ Regina F. Bendix; Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds. (2012). A Companion to Folklore, Volume 37 of Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 412. ISBN 978-1444354386.
  7. ^ Cloliosta 1790 Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, www.dias.ie
  8. ^ Gaelic Society of Dublin. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin. Dublin: Printed by J. Barlow.
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