Life
1773-1830 [or Denys]; b. 4 May, Kilfeakle var. Kilfeacle], Co. Tipperary;
ed. Trinity College, Cambridge [DIW DIH; DNB var. TCD], the second Catholic
to do so since the Reformation; Irish bar, 1796; Leinster Circuit barrister
and leading Catholic advocate after O’Connell; leader of democratic
faction in Emancipation movement, 1812-29 [DNB one of the leading Catholic
agitators]; prob. author of article leading to persecution of John Magee
for seditious libel of Duke of Richmond; his Statement of the Penal
Laws (1812) ran into many editions but resulted in imprisonment for
the printer Hugh Fitzpatick. DNB DIW DIH
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Works
[Denis Scully], A State of the Penal Laws which Aggrieve the Catholics
of Ireland [2nd edn.] (Dublin 1812); Brian McDermot, ed., The Catholic
Questions in Ireland and England: The Papers of Denys Scully (Blackrock
IAP 1988), 774pp; also Brian MacDermot, ed. The Irish Catholic Petition
of 1805, the Diary of Denys Scully (IAP 1992), 240pp.
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Criticism
Brian MacDermot, ed., The Catholic Question in Ireland and England
1798-1822 (Dublin: IAP 1988).
Maureen Wall, Catholic Ireland in the 18th c., ed. Gerard O’Brien (1989).
Brian Girvin, ‘Making Nations, O’Connell, Religion and The Creation of Political Identity’, in Daniel O’Connell, Political Pioneer, ed. Maurice R. O’Connell (Inst. Publ. Relations 1991), pp.13-34.
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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography also lists his son Vincent
Scully (1810-1871), ed. TCD and Trinity College, Cambridge; Irish bar,
1833; QC, 1840; MP Cork, 1852-57, and 1859-65; political pamphlets.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)