Denis Taaffe or Dennis Taafe, who also wrote under the pseudonym Julius Vindex (bapt. 1759, Clogher, County Louth; d. Year 1759 ( MDCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year See also Clogher (disambiguation Clogherhead (Ceann Chlochair is a fishing village in County Louth, on the east coast of County Louth (Contae Lú is a County on the East coast of Ireland, on the border with Northern Ireland. 1813, Dublin) was an Irish political writer. Year 1813 ( MDCCCXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world
Educated in Franciscan colleges, Taaffe was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1782, but had converted to the Church of Ireland by 1788. The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. He was soon trying to scrape a living as a tutor and pamphleteer. A supporter of the French Revolution and the United Irishmen, Taaffe claimed to have fought in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an The Society of United Irishmen was founded as a Liberal political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought Parliamentary reform The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 Turn Oot 1798 or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally was an uprising in 1798 lasting several months against the He edited a patriotic newspaper, The Shamroc, and his pamphlets against the 1800 Act of Union saw him arrested for seditious libel in 1799. The phrase Act of Union 1800 (or sometimes Act of Union 1801) (Acht an Aontais 1800 is used to describe two complementary Acts whose official United Kingdom titles are He was a founder member and first secretary of the Gaelic Society of Dublin in 1806, established to research and revive traditions of Irish literature. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. For a comparatively small island Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to World literature in all its branches [1]
Works
- The probability, causes, and consequences of a union between Great Britain and Ireland, 1798
- Vindication of the Irish nation, 1802
- An impartial history of Ireland from the period of the English invasion to the present time, 4 vols. , 1809–11. Available at Internet Archive
References
- ^ John Thomas Gilbert, A history of the city of Dublin, 1854, p. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and 96
- Murray Smith, ‘Taaffe, Denis (bap. 1759, d. 1813)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 21 Dec 2007
External links
- Works by or about Denis Taaffe in libraries (WorldCat catalog)