Life
1846-1916 [anglice, Flannery, var. O’Flannery]; b. nr. Ballinrobe,
Co. Mayo, moved with family to Manchester at seven; Teacher Training at
Hammersmith, 1865; held posts in Manchester and London; learned Irish
in youth, became an early poet of the Gaelic revival; author of the popular
hymn ‘Dóchas Linn, Naomh Pádraig’ [‘Hope
for us, St. Patrick’]; taught Irish classes in the Southwark Literary
Society from 1883 and in its successor, the Irish Literary Society. As
a member of a sub-committee of the latter, he circulated the plea to establish
the Irish Texts Society. Edited work includes Micheál O Coimín’s Laoi Oisín i dTír na nOg [The Lay of Oisín
in Tír na nOg] (1896) and Donncha Rua Mac Conmara’s Eachtra
Ghiolla an Amaráin (1897) [The Adventures of the Luckless
Fellow]. Donnchadh Ó Liatháin edited selected poems
and essays in Tomás Ó Flannghaile, Scoláire
agus File (c.1940). OCIL
Commentary
W. P. Ryan, The Irish Literary Revival (1894), Following
the lecture by Rev Stopford Brooke, March 1893, ‘... Dr. Douglas
Hyde had a word to say for Gaelic literature through the medium of the
Irish language [a speech] accredited with being the force which led to
the formation later on of an Irish class [conducted by TJ Flannery]. [p.73]
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References
No entries in Henry Boylan, Dictionary of
Irish Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988) or Brian Cleeve
& Anne Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin:
Lilliput 1985).
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Notes
Douglas Hyde: On 11 March [anno?], Hyde meets in London Flannery with one McSweeney
from Cork, an Irish speaker also, and a third, half-English, whom he dislikes.
(See Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde, 1974, p.162.)
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