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Thaddeus Connellan (Thady Connellan; Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn)
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Thaddeus Connellan (James Northcote, 1824)
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| Born | 1780 Skreen County Sligo, Ireland
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| Died | 1854 Sligo
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| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Schoolteacher, translator, poet |
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 (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. Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.
He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.
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