Ellen Fitzsimon

Ellen Fitzsimon (1805 – 27 January 1883) was an Irish poet.[1][2]

Ellen Fitzsimon
Born
Ellen Bridget O'Connell

1805
Derrynane House, County Kerry
Died27 January 1883(1883-01-27) (aged 77–78)
London, England
Resting placeKensal Green Cemetery
NationalityIrish
SpouseChristopher Fitzsimon
Parent(s)Daniel O'Connell and Mary O'Connell

Biography

Ellen Fitzsimon was born Ellen Bridget O'Connell at Derrynane House, the third child and eldest daughter of Daniel and Mary O'Connell. She was well educated and spoke a number of languages. She was a close political ally of her father.[3] Her poems appeared in Irish Monthly, The Nation, Duffy's Fireside Magazine, the Dublin Review. A single book of poems, Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems, was published in 1863.[1]

On 25 July 1825, she married Christopher Fitzsimon Esq. of Glencullen, County Dublin, who was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and M.P. for Dublin County. The couple had 13 children:[2]

  • Thomas Fitzsimon, died in infancy
  • Mary O'Connell Fitzsimon (1828-1877), married Henry Edmond Redmond
  • Daniel O'Connell Fitzsimon (1829-1844)
  • Christopher O'Connell Fitzsimon (1830-1884)
  • Henry Fitzsimon, died in infancy
  • Thomas Fitzsimon (1833-1858)
  • Henry O'Connell Fitzsimon (1835-1902)
  • Ellen Fitzsimon, died in infancy
  • Ellen "Eily" O'Connell Fitzsimon (25 January 1838 – 1919), married Charles Bianconi jnr, son of Charles Bianconi[4]
  • Maurice Fitzsimon, died in infancy
  • Kathleen Henrietta O'Connell Fitzsimon (1842-1927), married Lt.Col. George Ludlow Kennedy Hewett
  • Maurice "Mossy" O'Connell Fitzsimon, died at 13
  • Morgan O'Connell Fitzsimon, died in infancy

Fitzsimon died in London on 27 January 1883 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[1][5]

References
  1. Colman, Anne Ulry (1996). Dictionary of nineteenth-century Irish women poets. Galway: Kenny's Bookshop. p. 174. ISBN 0-906312-44-2. OCLC 35268787.
  2. O'Connell, Basil Morgan. The O'Connell Family Tracts 1. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. "The Family". Derrynane House. The Office of Public Works. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  4. O'Connell, Mrs Morgan John [née Mary Anne Bianconi] (1878). Charles Bianconi. A Biography, 1786–1875. By his Daughter. p. 158. Mr. Fitz-Simon, of Glancullen, M.P. for Dublin, who married the Liberator's eldest daughter, was another guest, and his daughter afterwards married my brother.
  5. "The O'Connell Papers. Part X". The Irish Monthly. 11 (118): 219–226. 1883. ISSN 2009-2113. JSTOR 20496948.
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