Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (1795 - 1829) was an Irish poet born in County Cork, Ireland.

Callanan studied for Catholic priesthood at Maynooth College, and afterwards law at Trinity College, Dublin, where he won two prizes for his poems. Afterward, he found employment teaching briefly at a school in his hometown of Cork.

Callanan also contributed translations of Irish verse to "Blackwood's Magazine" before traveling to Lisbon to work as a tutor in 1827. Jeremiah Callanan died in Lisbon in 1829, as he was preparing to return to Ireland.

Famous poem

"The Outlaw of Loch Lene," Callanan's most well-known poem, begins with the line, "O MANY a day have I made good ale . . . ."

Books of poetry

*"Recluse of Inchidony, and other Poems." 1830.
*"Poems" (ed. M.F. McCarthy). 1847.
* [http://dev.hil.unb.ca/Texts/EPD/UNB/view-works.cgi?c=callanan.440&pos=1 The Poems of J. J. Callanan. A New Edition, with Biographical Introduction and Notes] (c) 1992 Chadwyck-Healey


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