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Thomas O'Neill Russell (1828–1908) was an Irish novelist and a founding member of Conradh na Gaeilge.

Thomas O'Neill Russell
Born1828
Moate, Ireland
Died1908 (aged 7980)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationNovelist
NationalityIrish

Life


He was born in Moate, County Westmeath, the son of Joseph Russell, a Quaker farmer. He interested himself in the Irish language from the 1850s. He emigrated to the United States in 1867 and returned to Ireland in 1895.

He began to organise opinion in Dublin, by means of essay and lecture in the interests of a Gaelic revival. To his efforts to arouse in Irishmen a sense of the value of their ancient language and music was largely due the inauguration of the Gaelic League in 1893 and of the first Feis Ceoil (Irish musical festival) in 1897.[1]

He died on 15 June 1908 in Synge St., Dublin, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. [1]


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  1. O'Donoghue, David James (1912). "Russell, Thomas O'Neill" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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