Ó Flannghaile, Tomás

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

Ó Flannghaile, Tomás ( T. J. Flannery ) (1846–1916), poet. He was born near Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, but when he was 7 his family moved to Manchester. Having learnt to write Irish in his youth, he was one of the early poets of the language revival movement, producing the popular hymn ‘Dóchas Linn, Naomh Pádraig’ .

From 1883 he taught Irish classes in the Southwark Literary Society [see literary revival ]. He circulated the proposal to establish the Irish Texts Society. Works edited by him include Donncha Rua Mac Conmara's Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin (1897).