{{Short description|Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet (1827–1914)}} {{Other people|Timothy Sullivan}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Timothy Daniel Sullivan00.jpg | office = Lord Mayor of Dublin | term_start = 4 July 1886 | term_end = 15 July 1888 | predecessor = John O'Connor | successor = Thomas Sexton | office1 = MP for West Donegal | term_start1 = 7 July 1892 | term_end1 = 25 October 1900 | predecessor1 = James Joseph Dalton | successor1 = James Boyle | office2 = MP for Dublin College Green | term_start2 = 1 December 1885 | term_end2 = 5 July 1892 | predecessor2 = New office | successor2 = Joseph Edward Kenny | office3 = MP for Westmeath | term_start3 = 1 April 1880 | term_end3 = 25 November 1885 | predecessor3 = {{ubl|Patrick James Smyth|Lord Robert Montagu}} | successor3 = Office abolished | birth_name = Timothy Daniel Sullivan | birth_date = {{birth date|1827|5|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Bantry, County Cork, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1914|3|14|1827|5|29|df=y}} | death_place = Dublin, Ireland | party = Irish Parliamentary Party | spouse = {{marriage|Catherine Healy|1856|1899}} | children = 3 | relations = {{Ubl|Alexander Martin Sullivan (brother)|Donal Sullivan (brother)|Kevin O'Higgins (grandson)|Tom O'Higgins (great-grandson)|Michael O'Higgins (brother-in-law)|Tim Healy (brother-in-law)}} | alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin }}
'''Timothy Daniel Sullivan''' (29 May 1827 – 31 March 1914) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet who wrote the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland", in 1867. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1886 to 1888 and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1880 to 1900.<ref name="ILv9" />
==Politician== Sullivan was a member of the Home Rule League, supporting Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1880 general election, being "convinced that without self-government there could never be peace, prosperity or contentment in Ireland". He joined the Irish Parliamentary Party when it was established in 1882. When the party split in 1891, he became an Anti-Parnellite until the Nationalist factions were reunited in 1900.
Sullivan represented a number of constituencies in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was elected as an MP for Westmeath in 1880 and served until 1885. In 1885, he was elected to the newly created constituency of Dublin College Green. He joined the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation in 1891, and was defeated by a Parnellite in the 1892 general election. Four days later he was returned unopposed for West Donegal which he represented until he retired in 1900.<ref name="ILv9" />
He was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1886 and 1887.<ref name="ILv9" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2020-09/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2021.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021 |work=Dublin City Council|date=June 2020|access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>
==Publicist== He owned and edited a number of publications (''The Nation'', ''Dublin Weekly News'' and ''Young Ireland''). In December 1887, he published reports of meetings by the Irish National League. As a result, he was convicted and imprisoned for two months under the Crimes Act.<ref name="ILv9" />
As well as writing the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland", he wrote the adopted anthem of the All-for-Ireland League: "''All for Ireland! One for all!'' and popular pieces such as ''Dear Old Ireland'', "Song from the Backwoods" and "Michael Dwyer".<ref>Dunboy, and Other Poems, Dublin, 1861</ref>
==Family== He was married to Catherine (Kate) Healy who was the sister of Tim Healy, the first Governor General of the Irish Free State in 1922.<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/sullivan-timothy-daniel-a8386|title=Sullivan, Timothy Daniel|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last=Cronin|first=Maura|access-date=28 March 2026}}</ref> A number of his descendants were people of outstanding distinction. His son Timothy was Chief Justice of Ireland from 1936 to 1946. His daughter Frances was an Irish-language activist in {{lang|ga|Craobh an Chéitinnigh}}, the Keating branch of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) and a lecturer in Irish. His daughter Anne (who had sixteen children) was the mother of politician Kevin O'Higgins, one of the dominant political figures of the 1920s. Sullivan's great-grandson Tom O'Higgins served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 1974 to 1985.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Vere White|first=Terence|title=Kevin O'Higgins|publisher=Methuen and Co.|location=London|year=1948}}</ref>
His brother, Alexander Martin Sullivan, author of ''New Ireland'' and a fervent constitutional and cultural nationalist, was the owner and editor of ''The Nation'' after Gavan Duffy, and prior to Timothy Daniel Sullivan.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sullivan|first1=Timothy Daniel|title=A.M. Sullivan: A Memoir|date=1885|publisher=90 Middle Abbey Street|location=Dublin|pages=10–15}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="ILv9">McCarthy, Justin; Egan, Maurice Francis; Hyde, Douglas; Gregory, Lady; Roche, James Jeffrey; Welsh, Charles (Eds.)(1904). In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tVIrAQAAIAAJ&dq=Timothy+Daniel+Sullivan&pg=PA3333 ''Irish Literature, Vol. IX'']''. Philadelphia: John D. Morris & Co. p. 3333. Google Book Search. Retrieved on 30 March 2011.</ref>}}
==Further reading== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-timothy-sullivan | Timothy Sullivan }} * [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rotunda/Belvidere_Place/29832/ 1911 census return.] * ''Who's Who of British members of parliament: Vol. II 1886–1918'', edited by M. Stenton & S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978) * {{cite book|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922|editor-first=Brian M.|editor-last=Walker|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|year=1978}}
==Notes== * Sullivan, T.D. (1905) ''[https://archive.org/details/recollectionstr00sullgoog Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics]''. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; M.H. Gills & Son, Ltd. Retrieved on 30 March 2011.
==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-timothy-sullivan | Timothy Daniel Sullivan }} * {{Gutenberg author | id=39886}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Timothy Daniel Sullivan |sopt=t}} * ''[https://archive.org/stream/dunboyother00osul/dunboyother00osul_djvu.txt Dunboy, and Other Poems]'' by Timothy Daniel O'Sullivan. Fowler, Dublin. 1861 * ''[https://archive.org/details/irishnationalpoe00sull Irish National Poems]'', Timothy Daniel O'Sullivan (Ed.) Gill & Sons, Dublin, 1911
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