William Daniel (archbishop)
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William Daniel ( ga, Uilliam Ó Domhnaill, or Ó Domhnuill) D.D. was an
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clergyman who served as the
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Archbishop of Tuam The Archbishop of Tuam ( ; ga, Ard-Easpag Thuama) is an archbishop which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Catholic Church. Histor ...
from 1609 until his death in 1628. Born in Kilkenny, he was one of the first appointed Scholars of
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, and afterwards one of the college's first elected
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s. While at Trinity College, he took up the work of translating ''The
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(Tiomna Nuadh)'' into
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. This work was commenced by Nicholas Walsh (
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), John Kearney (Treasurer of St Patrick's, Dublin), and Nehemiah Donnellan (Archbishop of Tuam), and was printed in 1602. William Daniel also translated an Irish version of the
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, which was published in 1608.The Irish translation of Archbishop Daniell, and its successors
''The Book of Common Prayer among the Nations of the World''. Retrieved on 2 April 2010. He was appointed
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of Stagonil in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1591, and
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of the cathedral in 1609. He was nominated
Archbishop of Tuam The Archbishop of Tuam ( ; ga, Ard-Easpag Thuama) is an archbishop which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Catholic Church. Histor ...
on 28 June and consecrated in August 1609. After he became archbishop, he continued to hold the treasurership '' in commendam''. The Archbishop died at
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on 11 July 1628, and was buried in the same tomb with his predecessor Nehemiah Donnellan in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam.


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Further reading

* Ó hAodha, Ruairí. '"I followed it to the Presse with ielousy" Dr. Daniel of Tuam and the emergence of Gaelic print culture, c. 1570-1628' ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'' vol. 65 (2013): pp. 7–27 * Williams, Nicholas. ''I bprionta i leabhar: na Protastúin agus prós na Gaeilge'' (Baile Átha Cliath, 1986)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniel, William 1628 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Anglican archbishops of Tuam Fellows of Trinity College Dublin Christian clergy from County Kilkenny People of Elizabethan Ireland Scholars of Trinity College Dublin 16th-century Irish Anglican priests 17th-century Anglican archbishops 17th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Year of birth unknown Irish Anglican archbishops