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 Tulla () is a market town in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated in the east of the county, on the R462 and near its junction with the R352, 18km from Ennis. Etymology Tulla is generally translated as ''An Tulach'', meaning "round hill". ...

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, son of a hedge schoolteacher of Irish, he was educated at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. 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 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, ...

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 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 ...

, culminating in the

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in 1892. O'Flanagan died in 1814.

Works

* ''Translation of the Annals of Innisfallen'' by Theophilus O'Flanagan * ''Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin'', edited by Theophilus O'Flanagan AB, Published by John Barlow Dublin (1808).Gaelic Society of Dublin
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin
Dublin: Printed by J. Barlow. * '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

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