O'Donovan (John)
- 1806–1861
- scholars
Irish scholar
See also: Charles P. Mac DonnellMac Donnell (Charles P.)
MacDonnell (Charles P.)
Irish scholar who has been identified as a “a member of the Royal Irish Academy [since 1847], the Irish Archæological Society, and the Celtic Society; from 1850 onwards he appears in Dublin directories as Pursuivant at Arms in Dublin Castle”.
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(1790?–1828)
Ó Scoireadh (Séamus)
Irish: Séamus Ó Scoireadh, farmer, scholar and translator from Kilkenny.
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MacDonnell (Charles P.)
Irish scholar who has been identified as a “a member of the Royal Irish Academy [since 1847], the Irish Archæological Society, and the Celtic Society; from 1850 onwards he appears in Dublin directories as Pursuivant at Arms in Dublin Castle”.
See more James ScurryScurry (James)
(1790?–1828)
Ó Scoireadh (Séamus)
Irish: Séamus Ó Scoireadh, farmer, scholar and translator from Kilkenny.
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McDonough, Ciaran, “Investigating Irish antiquarianism: a comparative study between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures, 1830 - 1876”, unpublished PhD thesis, NUI Galway, 2017.
abstract:
The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in and similarities between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures in Ireland in the period 1830 to 1876. The thesis demonstrates that there were notable differences, which were largely due to matters of religion. It focuses upon a select group of scholars (John O’Donovan, Eugene O’Curry, James Henthorn Todd, William Wilde, George Petrie, Denis Henry Kelly, William Reeves, John Windele, Owen Connellan, James Hardiman, and Robert Shipboy MacAdam) from both religious confessions, who were the most prolific antiquarians of this time, and it examines their works and the contexts in which they were written. Using a new historicist methodology, this thesis highlights trends in antiquarian research, its dissemination, and modes of working and ascribes them to a particular religious community.This work is organised in three separate parts. In part one, a brief overview of the development of Irish antiquarianism from the early seventeenth to the late eighteenth century is presented in order to illustrate long-standing sectarian differences and their impact upon antiquarian pursuits in the nineteenth century.Previous scholarship has traditionally categorised the antiquarians studied in this thesis according to ethnicity (Gaelic Irish versus Anglo-Irish). Conversely, part two demonstrates that religion, and not ethnicity, was the greatest dividing social factor in Irish antiquarian circles in the first half of the nineteenth-century. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that emphasis on ethnicity and race only emerged after works had been published relating to that topic from the 1850s. Thus, part two is a comparative study between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures in the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the differences between the two in terms of subject matter and methodology employed.Part three traces the influence of antiquarian works on Cultural Nationalist ideology and thought at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth. In focusing specifically on the influence of antiquarian works on the images of ‘Irishness’ advanced by the Cultural Nationalists during this period, I determine that it was in fact Catholic antiquarian works that had a greater impact on the Cultural Nationalist discourse.
Aran.library.nuigalway.ie – available after 2021-09-12: <link>
Quinn, Paul, “John O’Donovan’s and Eugene O’Curry’s notes and the construction of the Ancient laws of Ireland”, The Irish Jurist 55 (2016): 166–174.
Swift, Catherine, “John O’Donovan and Thomas le Keu: preliminary comments on processes of anglicisation of Irish surnames”, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 55 (2015): 79–87.
UCD digital library, Online: University College Dublin, 2012–present. URL: <http://digital.ucd.ie>.
[ivrla:7242] “John O'Donovan/William Reeves correspondence”
106 items from the period 1832-1860: “Correspondence between John O'Donovan (1809-1861), and, principally, William Reeves (1815-1892): eighty letters (1832-1860) and twenty-six undated note fragments.”
McGuinne, Dermot, “[40] John O’Donovan’s edition of The annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters”, in: James H. Murphy (ed.), The Oxford history of the Irish book, vol. 4: The Irish book in English, 1800–1890, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 477–483.
abstract:
This chapter examines the production of Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, perhaps the most important publishing event in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. In an age in which there was no separate Irish-language publishing community, it was an edition in both the Gaelic original and English translation of Annála Ríoghachta Éireann, by the Gaelic scholar John O’Donovan (1806–61). Today, the Annals continues to be a highly regarded primary source of reference for Irish historians. It remains a model of excellence among those who appreciate the more classical approach to typography and book production.
Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, “O'Donovan, John (1806–1861)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2008–.
Ó Cadhla, Stiofán, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824–1842, ethnography, cartography, translation, Dublin, Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2007.
abstract:
A unique contemporary analysis of the huge imperial mapping project of the British Government in nineteenth century Ireland, which describes as well as re-interprets the value of science and modernity as practiced by the British empire. The book raises questions about representation and academic discourses and highlights and interprets colonial techniques of observation and description. The nature of ‘evidence’ within colonial archive is also questioned. Focussing on the main aspects of the survey from a contemporary theoretical perspective it both enlivens the original documents and serves as a sensitive critique of it. The main themes are ethnographic description, translation and cartography and the relationship between them in the nineteenth century. Central to this is the emerging ‘view’ of Ireland and the Irish and the idea of the project as representative of early Irish ethnography. The book contains new findings in relation to renowned scholars such as John O’Donovan and re-engages with the Friel vs Andrews debate on ‘Translation and Irish culture’. The book should be of wide interest to folklorists, cultural sociologists, geographers, historians, ethnologists, cultural studies, Irish language scholars and the general reader with an interest in Ireland.
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Thompson, John, “William Reeves and the medieval texts and manuscripts at Armagh”, Peritia 10 (1996): 363–380.
abstract:
The achievement of William Reeves as Armagh keeper can be closely associated with the changing mid-nineteenth-century fortunes of the Armagh library property. In the absence of a detailed survey of small Irish collections to match the example set by N. R. Ker’s magisterial Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, this study traces the crucial role played by Reeves in the history of several important manuscripts and early books now in Armagh Public Library.
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Herity, Michael [ed.], and John OʼDonovan, Ordnance Survey letters Donegal: letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Donegal collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835, Dublin: Four Masters Press, 2000.
Internet Archive – Available on loan: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, and Graham Mawhinney [ed.], John O'Donovan’s letters from County Londonderry. Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Londonderry: collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1834, Draperstown: Ballinascreen Historical Society, 1992.
OʼDonovan, John, “Two early modern descriptions of Navan: 2. John O’Donovan, 1809–1861”, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 1 (1986): 23.
OʼDonovan, John, Eugene OʼCurry, and Michael OʼFlanagan [ed.], Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Clare: collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839, with letters and extracts relative to ancient territories in Thomond, 1841, 3 vols, typescript ed., Bray, Wicklow, 1928.
– Clare County Library: text with introduction by William Nolan (1997): <link>
OʼDonovan, John, and Michael OʼFlanagan [ed.], Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Londonderry: collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1834, typescript ed., Bray, Wicklow, 1927.
OʼDonovan, John, “Supplement to O'Reilly’s Irish-English dictionary”, in: Edward OʼReilly, An Irish-English dictionary, rev. ed., Dublin: James Duffy, 1864. 557–725.
Internet Archive: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “The Fomorians and Lochlanns: pedigrees of MacCabe of Ireland and MacLeod of Scotland”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology (first series) 9 (1861–1862): 94–105.
JSTOR: <link>
OʼDonovan, John [ed. and tr.], The topographical poems of John O’Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh O’Huidhrin, Dublin: Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1862.
OʼDonovan, John, “The lost and missing Irish manuscripts”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology (first series) 9 (1861–1862): 16–28.
JSTOR: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “The family of Gall Burke, of Gallstown, in the County of Kilkenny”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 3 (1860): 97–120.
OʼDonovan, John, “Elegy of Erard Mac Coise, chief chronicler of the Gaels, pronounced over the tomb of Fergal O'Ruairc, chief of Brefny, at Clonmacnoise”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1:2 (1857, 1858): 341–356.
Edition, with discussion and English translation, of the poem beg. Brónach ollamh déis a rígh (ascr. to Urard mac Coise) from TCD 1419 (H 6. 15)
Internet Archive: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “The registry of Clonmacnoise”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1:2 (1857, 1858): 444–460.
Internet Archive: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “Elegy on the death of Rev. Edmond Kavanagh, by Rev. James O'Lalor”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1:1 (1856, 1858): 118–143.
Internet Archive – parts 1 (1856) and 2 (1857): <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “Letter of Florence Mac Carthy to the Earl of Thomond, on the ancient history of Ireland”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1:1 (1856, 1858): 203–229.
Internet Archive – parts 1 (1856) and 2 (1857): <link>
OʼDonovan, John, “A letter from Sir Charles O'Carroll to Lord Mountjoy, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland”, Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1:2 (1857, 1858): 311–314.
Internet Archive – parts 1 (1856) and 2 (1857): <link>
OʼDonovan, John, Annala rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, 7 vols, vol. 7: [Index locorum; Index nominum], 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1856.
Internet Archive: <link>
OʼDonovan, John, Annala rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, 7 vols, vol. 1: [Introduction; Epistle dedicatory; Approbations; 2242 BC–902 AD], 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1856.
OʼDonovan, John, Annala rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, 7 vols, vol. 2: [903–1171; Addenda et corrigenda], 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1856.
OʼDonovan, John [ed. and tr.], Annala rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, 7 vols, 2nd ed., Dublin, 1856.
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