{{Short description|Irish school-teacher, poet and historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Thaddeus Connellan (Thady Connellan; Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn) | image = Thaddeus Connellan, by James Northcote.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Thaddeus Connellan (James Northcote, 1824) | birth_date = 1780 | birth_place = Skreen County Sligo, Ireland | death_date = 1854 | death_place = Sligo | monuments = | occupation = {{hlist|Schoolteacher|translator|poet}} | known_for = | education = | notable_works = | spouse = | parents = | awards = | website = <!-- {{Url|www.example.com}} --> | footnotes = }} '''Thaddeus''' "'''Thady'''" '''Connellan''' ({{langx|ga|'''Tadhg Ó Coinnialláinn'''}}) (1780&ndash;1854) was an Irish school-teacher, poet and historian.

==Life== He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan. He started a school of his own, but had more success when he became principal of a school established by the Rev. Albert Blest<ref>'A Memoir Of Albert Blest: For Many Years Agent And Secretary For Ireland Of The London Hibernian Society (1843)' by Maiben Cunningham Motherwell.</ref> (father of William Cunningham Blest), a Baptist, supported by the London Hibernian Society in Greenville, Coolaney, in the early 1800s. Like his relative Owen he left the Catholic church and embraced Protestantism, around 1808.<ref>[https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1059 CONNELLAN, Thady (c.1775–1854)] by Diarmuid Breathnach agus Máire Ní Mhurchú, anim.ie</ref> Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.<ref>W. G. Wood-Martin: History of Sligo, town and country. Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1892</ref><ref>Ó hAilín, T. (1968) "The Irish Society and Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin." Studia Hibernica, No 8., pp 60-78.</ref>

He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.{{sfn|Stephen|1887}}

==Publications== * ''English - Irish Dictionary intended for use of Schools'', Dublin, 1814. * ''Seanraite Sholaim a Ghaoidheilge agus mBearla – The Proverbs of Solomon in Irish and English'', (1815) * ''Litir an Ríogh a nGaoidheilge, ó Shaicsbhearla'', 1825. * ''An duanaire. Fonna seanma. A selection of Irish melodies, poems and moral epigrams'', (1829)

==References== {{reflist}} ;Attribution {{cite DNB|wstitle=Connellan, Thaddeus|volume=12 |page=21}}

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