David James O'Donoghue
David James O'Donoghue | |
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Born | London, England | 22 July 1866
Died | 27 June 1917 | (aged 50)
Education | Writer, editor |
David James O'Donoghue (22 July 1866 – 27 June 1917) was an Irish biographer and editor.
Early life
David James O'Donoghue was born in 1866 in Chelsea, London, to Irish parents, and grew up in the Hans Town area of Chelsea.[1] He was the son of John O'Donoghue, a bricklayer from Kilworth, County Cork,[2][3] and Bridget Griffin, who was from County Tipperary.[4] He was the third of nine children, and had four brothers, Thomas, John, James, and Edmund, and four sisters, Mary, Ellen, Katherine, and Agnes. He was first an upholsterer's apprentice from the age of sixteen, before becoming a journalist and author.[5]
Career
He attended a
- Irish Poetry of the Nineteenth Century (1894)
- Humor of Ireland (1894; new edition, 1911)
- List of 1300 Irish Artists (1894)
- The Life and Writings of James Clarence Mangan (1897)
- Bibliographical Catalogue of Collections of Irish Music (1899)
- Geographical Distribution of Irish Ability (1906)
O'Donoghue published an edition of
In 1896 he moved to Dublin. In 1909 he became librarian of University College Dublin. He was co-editor of Catalogue of the Gilbert Library (in Dublin; 1918).
He died on 27 June 1917.[7]
Notes
- The Encyclopedia Press. 1917. p. 127. Retrieved 24 September 2021 – via archive.org.
- ^ 1861 England and Wales Census
- ^ Autobiographies of W.B. Yeats
- ^ 1911 England and Wales Census
- ^ 1871-1911 England and Wales Census
- ^ The Poets of Ireland online in Internet Archive.
- ^ Dublin Diary - from DublinHeritage.ie Archived June 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Media related to David James O'Donoghue at Wikimedia Commons
- Irish Literature Companion
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Works by David James O'Donoghue at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)