An English Irish dictionary, intended for the use of schools

Details

Level of description

Item

Date

1814

Reference

39

Extent and medium

vii, 144 pp; printed

Scope and content

A copy of Thaddeus Connellan, ‘An English Irish dictionary, intended for the use of schools / containing upwards of eight thousand English words, with their corresponding explanation in Irish’ (Dublin: Printed by Graisberry & Campbell, 1814).

General note

Thaddeus (or Thady) Connellan (1780-1854) was a Sligo-born Irish language scholar who converted to Protestantism in about 1808. Like other Gaelic scholars of the early nineteenth century, he ran an evangelical Bible school dedicated to converting the native Irish through the medium of the Irish language. His ‘An Irish and English Spelling Book’ reached its nineteenth edition by 1848. Connellan claimed his dictionary offered an ‘easy path to the first rudiments of knowledge’. With this knowledge attained, the reader’s ‘interest would soon stimulate him to the acquisition of the English language, on which his hopes depend’. Connellan died in Sligo (in apparently great poverty) and his funeral resulted in bitter sectarian clashes.

General note

A digital copy of the text can be read online at https://books.google.ie/books?id=eP2bJUB_lucC&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Context

Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Book Collection

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