Theophilus O’Flanagan () (c. 1762 – 1814) was an Irish school teacher, translator, and Irish language scholar. Born circa 1762 in Tulla,

County Clare County Clare () is a Counties of Ireland, county in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster in the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern part of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council ...

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

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. 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 19 January 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 Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous ...

, culminating in the

Gaelic League (; historically known in English as the Gaelic League) is a social and cultural organisation which promotes the Irish language in Ireland and worldwide. The organisation was founded in 1893 with Douglas Hyde as its first president, when it eme ...

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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