Life
1800-1878 [as on title-pages; also John Daly]; b. Farnane, Co. Waterford;
ed., hedge-schools; taught Irish at Wesleyan College, Kilkenny; moved
to Dublin and set up as printer and bookseller in Angelsea St.; commissioned
and published Edward Walsh translations as Reliques of Irish Jacobite
Poetry (1844); wrote and published Self-Instruction in Irish
(1846); founding secretary of Ossianic Society, 1853; retained contact
with Gaelic poets and scholars such as Patrick Farham in Dingle, Co. Kerry,
and Art Mac Bionaid, in Forkhill, Co. Armagh; corresponded with Nicholas
O’Kearney who edited Feis Tighe Chonáin for the Ossianic
Society founded in his Anglesea St. house in 1853; issued Michael Kearney,
trans., The Kings of the Race of Eibhear (1847), being the poem
of John O’Dugan [Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin];
commissioned and published Mangan versifying the prose translations in
The Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849), 1st Series [George Sigerson’s
edition being the second]; also Irish Miscellany: Being a Selection
of the Poems of the Ulster Bards of the Last Century (1876) and Key
to the Study of Gaelic (Boston 1899). DIW DIH RAF FDA OCIL
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Notes
Field
Day Anthology, gen. ed. Seamus Deane, (Derry: Field Day
1991), Vol. 2, selects from Poets and Poetry of Munster, ‘An
rabh Tú ag an gCarraig?’, translated by Mangan [79-80]; remarks
at 5, 6, 35, 40, 41, 96 [recte 97], 98, but no biog. With Eugene O’Curry,
he is one of the Gaelic antiquarians overlooked in the anthology, considered
as a reflection of the cultural history which is so close to its professed
concerns.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. 2; citing Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry (1844); Self-Instruction in Irish (Daly 1846); Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849); also Seán Ó Dubhagáin, The King of the Race of Eibhear, ed. J. Daly with trans. by M. Kearney (Dublin 1847).
John O’Daly, Laoithe Fiannuigheactha [Trans. of the Ossianic Soc.] (1859). MORRIS holds Irish Miscellany, being a selection of the poems of the Ulster bards of the last century (1876); Self-Instruction in Irish or a primer of spelling and pronunciation with easy readings lessons for beginners (1871).
It was at O'Daly's house at 19 Anglesea St. that the meeting was held
establishing the Ossianic Society to which he was publisher. Hyde honours
him in Mise agus Connradh as the man who did most to popularise
Irish, in his way as a publisher. (Mise, p.17) [35] O’Daly
could tell Hyde how Mangan used come to his office and stretch across
the counter, putting into verse the literal translations of Gaelic poems.
Dominic Daly works out in a footnote [199] that it must have been years
before his college days that Hyde knew him, since O’Daly died two
years before Hyde entered TCD.
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