Life
1681-1751 [also O’Gallagher; Séamus Ó Gallchoir, or
Ó Gallchobhair]; b. diocese of Kilmore, Co. Cavan and north Co.
Leitrim; ed. Irish College, Paris and Propoganda Fide, Rome; appt. Cath.
Bishop of Raphoe, 1725-37, Ossory [Kildare], 1737-51; one time hiding
from authorities on Lough Erne; composed and preached sermons in distinguished
Irish to peasant listeners; Sixteen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar
stile, on useful and necessary subjects ... by J[ames O’]Gallagher,
D.D., Bishop of Raphoe (Dublin 1737) [var. 1736]; editions and translations
incl. Sermons in Irish-Gaelic with literal idiomatic translations
on opposite pages, and Irish-Gaelic vocabulary, ed. Ulick Bourke (Dublin
1877); The Sermons of the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, trans from
the orig. Irish by James Byrne, rev. & corr. by a Catholic Priest
(Dublin 1807, 1819, 1835); Seacht Seanmóir Déag [17
Sermons] (Dublin 1911); d. Kilkenny. DNB DIW OCIL
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Works
Sixteen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar stile, on useful and
necessary subjects [...] by J[ames O’]Gallagher, D.D., Bishop
of Raphoe (1736), 8o.; Seventeen Irish Sermons [...]
in English characters ...] in which is included a sermon on the
Joys of Heaven (Dublin: P. Wogan 1795), 212pp., 12o.; The Sermons
of [... Dr Gallagher translated from the original Irish by J. Byrne,
revised and corrected by a Catholic priest [Bourke] (Dublin 1835);
and Sermons in Irish Gaelic [...]. with [... English
translations [...] and Irish Gaelic vocabulary, also a memoir
of the Bishop and his times, [by] U[lick]
J. Bourke / Irish & English (Dublin 1877).
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- T. F. O’Rahilly, ‘Gallagher’s Sermons’ in Gaedlica, vol. I, pp.66-72 [review of Seanmóirí Muighe Naodhad, a ceathramhadh imleabhar, i SEACHT SEANMOIR DEAG do cumadh le Séamus Ua Gallchobhair, Easbog Ráthabhoth. Ar n-a chur in eagar le Pól Breathnach [Paul Walsh] (Sagart [Maynooth]: Muintir Ghioll 1911)];
- Douglas Hyde, Literary History of Ireland (1899; 1902 ed.), p. 600;
- Maureen Wall, Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: Collected Essays of Maureen Wall, ed. Gerard O’Brien (Dublin: Geog. Publ. 1989), p. 5.
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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography gives bio-details
[as above]; published Irish Sermons in an easy and familiar style
(1737 [var.]) 1935]),
British Library lists under Gallagher, J., S.T.D., Seventeen Irish Sermons ... in English characters ... in which is included a sermon on the Joys of Heaven (Dublin: P. Wogan 1795), 212pp., 12o. Also under O’Gallagher (successively Catholic bishop of Raphoe and Kildare), Sermons in Irish Gaelic ... with ... English translations ... and Irish Gaelic vocabulary, also a memoir of the Bishop and his times, [by] U[lick] J. Bourke. Irish & English (Dublin 1877); The Sermons of ... Dr Gallagher translated from the original Irish by J. Byrne, revised and corrected by a Catholic priest (Dublin 1835); and Sixteen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar stile, on useful and necessary subjects ... by J[ames O’]Gallagher, D.D., Bishop of Raphoe (1736), 8o. No other edns.
University of Ulster (Morris Collection) holds Seventeen Irish Sermons, in an easy and familiar style, on useful and necessary subjects; in English character as being more familiar to the generality of the clergy. In which is included a sermon on the joys of heaven (Dublin, Pickering 1819); also Sermons in Irish-Gaelic (Dublin 1877).
Lost books: His Sermons among the books lost by Tomás
Ruadh Ó Suilliobháin on a boat crossing and cited in Amhráin
na Leabhair.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)