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Gaelic Society Of Dublin
The Gaelic Society of Dublin was an effort to save and support the Irish language. The society first met on January 19, 1807. Theophilus O'Flanagan AB, acted as its first secretary. Involved in the setting up of the society were Dr. John Lanigan, Richard MacElligott, Edward O'Reilly, William Halliday, and Maynooth College Irish professor Father Paul O'Brien. Pat Lynch acted as secretary from 1815. Published in 1808, ''The Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin'' was one of the first printed documents on the Irish language and documented Gaelic customs such as Brehon law. The society petered out. A number of years later another effort was made by some of those involved in the society by creating the Iberno-Celtic Society in 1818. Another initiative was the Irish Archaeological Society of 1840. In 1854, it merged with the Dublin Celtic Society, which had formed in 1845. The Ossianic Society, established in Dublin in 1853, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus O'Flanagan
Theophilus O’Flanagan ( ga, Tadgh ó'Flanagáin) (c. 1762 – 1814) was an Irish school teacher, translator, and Irish language scholar. Born circa 1762 in Tulla, County Clare, son of a hedge schoolteacher of Irish, 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. He worked as a travelling school teacher, he set up schools in Carrick on Suir, and on Ormond Quay in Dublin in 1808. O'Flanagan, along with Richard MacElligott and Patrick Lynch, 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. 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 (; historically known in English as the Gaelic League) is a social and cultural organisation which promotes the Irish language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lanigan (historian)
John Lanigan (1758 – 7 July 1828) was an Irish Church historian. Born in County Tipperary, he studied at the Irish College in Rome. He was a professor at the University of Pavia, where he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree. When Napoleon's army took the city, he lost most of his possessions, and returned to Ireland destitute. Lanigan found difficulty obtaining a clerical appointment due to suspicions of having Jansenist sympathies. He became sub-librarian at the Royal Dublin Society and was involved in the literary life of the city. Doctor Lanigan (as he is frequently cited) is most known for his massive and detailed work ''The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland,'' published in four volumes. Life John Lanigan was born in 1758 in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of sixteen children born to Thomas and Mary Anne Dorkan Lanigan. His father was a schoolmaster. He received his early training from his father and in a private Protestant Classical school at Cashel, similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward O'Reilly (scholar)
Edward O'Reilly (6 December 1765 – 26 August 1830) was an Irish scholar in the first half of the 19th century. Biography O'Reilly was born on 6 December 1765. His grandfather was Eoghan O'Reilly of Corstown, County Meath. Edward's father moved to Harold's Cross, Dublin, where he practised as an apothecary. The History of the City of Dublin, Vol. II, p. 934, by John Warburton (1818) states- ''"Edward O'Reilly was educated in Dublin, where he had never heard Irish spoken. He applied himself to the study of the language by accident. In the year 1794 a young man of the name of Wright, who was about to emigrate from his native country, had a number of books to dispose of, which chiefly consisted of Irish MSS. They had been collected by the industry of a man of the name of Morris O'Gorman, who was clerk to Mary's-lane Chapel, and the person from whom Dr. Young, Bishop of Clonfert, and General Valancey, had learned Irish. This man's library, which filled five large sacks, Mr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Halliday (linguist)
William Haliday (1788–1812) was an Irish language enthusiast. He sometimes used a Gallicized version of his name William O'Hara, in some documents his surname is misspelt ''Halliday''. The son of a Dublin tradesman, he was born around 1788, he studied the Irish language, and produced a grammar of it aged 19 under another the assumed name, Edmund O'Connell (signing ''E.O'C''). He trained as a solicitor. In 1808 he assisted Edward O'Reilly, Dr. John Lanigan, and Father Paul'O'Brien (Professor of Irish at Maynooth College) in founding the Gaelic Society of Dublin, an effort to save the Irish language. He died aged 24, on 26 October 1812 and is buried in Taney Parish, graveyard, Dundrum, with an inscription on his tomb by Dr. Lanigan. His younger brother was the historian Charles Haliday Charles Haliday (1789–1866) was an Irish public health reformer, historian and antiquary who made significant contributions to the study of the history of Dublin, being particularly intereste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maynooth College
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland. The college and seminary are often referred to as Maynooth College. The college was officially established as the ''Royal College of St Patrick'' by Maynooth College Act 1795. Thomas Pelham, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced a Bill for the foundation of a Catholic college, and this was enacted by Parliament. It was opened to hold up to 500 students for the Catholic Priesthood of whom up to 90 would be ordained each year, and was once the largest seminary in the world. In the final decades of the 20th century, and early 21st century, the seminary intake decreased in line with the wider fall in vocations across the Western developed world, with a record low in 2017 of six first year seminarians. This fall was due, in part, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul O'Brien (scholar)
Rev. Paul O'Brien (1763–1820) was an Irish language scholar and Catholic priest. He was the first Professor of Irish at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, serving from 1802 until his death. Born in 1763, from Cormeen, Co. Meath, O'Brien was a great grand nephew of Turlough O'Carolan. In 1807 O'Brien was instrumental in establishing ''The Gaelic Society of Dublin'' along with Dr. John Lanigan, Edward O'Reilly, William Halliday, and Theophilus O'Flanagan Theophilus O’Flanagan ( ga, Tadgh ó'Flanagáin) (c. 1762 – 1814) was an Irish school teacher, translator, and Irish language scholar. Born circa 1762 in Tulla, County Clare, son of a hedge schoolteacher of Irish, he was educated at Trinity C .... Professor O'Brien was also involved in Iberno-Celtic Society another initiative to promote the Irish Language. Publications * ''A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language'' by Paul O'Brien (1809). References 1763 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Irish historians 19th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brehon Law
Early Irish law, historically referred to as (English: Freeman-ism) or (English: Law of Freemen), also called Brehon law, comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. They were partially eclipsed by the Norman invasion of 1169, but underwent a resurgence from the 13th until the 17th century, over the majority of the island, and survived into Early Modern Ireland in parallel with English law. Early Irish law was often mixed with Christian influence and juristic innovation. These secular laws existed in parallel, and occasionally in conflict, with canon law throughout the early Christian period. The laws were a civil rather than a criminal code, concerned with the payment of compensation for harm done and the regulation of property, inheritance and contracts; the concept of state-administered punishment for crime was foreign to Ireland's early jurists. They show Ireland in the early medieval period to have been a hierarchical society, taking g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Archaeological Society
The Irish Archaeological Society (sometimes spelled as "Irish Archæological Society") was a learned society, founded in 1840. Among the founders was the Rev. Dr. Todd, who acted as secretary. The Irish Archaeological Society was one of the first text publication societies of Ireland. It published scholarly material on the history of Ireland from 1841 to 1855.. The publications appeared from 1840 to 1851, and in 1855. See: with 15 volumes online readable. In 1854 it merged with the Celtic Society, to form the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society. Publications In 1841 the first publication of the Irish Archaeological Society appeared: * ''Tracts Relating to Ireland, printed for the Irish Archæological Society.'' Vol. I. Dublin. It contained: ** Minutes of the First Annual General Meeting of the Society. ** ''The Circuit of Ireland by Muircheabtach Mac Neill'', by Cormacan Eigeas (A.D. 942). Translation and Notes by John O'Donovan. ** ''A Brief Description of Ireland'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Society
The term Celtic Society is used to refer to a type of student society at the four ancient universities of Scotland, which were founded between the late 18th to mid-19th centuries in the wake of the Celtic Revival and Romanticism with the primary aim of supporting the practical and academic study of the Scottish Gaelic language and culture. These societies are the oldest at their respective universities, and were instrumental in campaigning for the establishment of academic departments dedicated to Gaelic Studies. St Andrews University Celtic Society, founded , was the first of these student societies. In the 20th century, as the other ancient universities began offering Gaelic as an academic subject, students with an interest in Gaelic chose to attend these instead. Consequently, the society at St Andrews shifted its focus towards Scottish country dance Scottish country dance (SCD) is the distinctively Scottish form of country dance, itself a form of social dance involvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossianic Society
The Ossianic Society was an Irish literary society founded in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day, 1853, taking its name from the poetic material associated with the ancient narrator Oisín. History Founding members included John O'Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele and William Smith O'Brien, the antiquary Standish Hayes O'Grady was a principal member and later became its president. By 1860 the list of subscribers numbered 746, six volumes of ''Transactions'' were produced, and the preparations for further issues were extant when it ceased operations in 1863.Ossianic SocietyTransactions of the Ossianic Society Dublin. The group of Irish scholars emerged from competing societies, such as the Celtic Society and the Irish Archaeological Society, focusing on the translation of Irish literature from the "Fenian period of Irish history", specifically, the mythological works of Oisín and the Fianna, and the revival of the Irish language Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
