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

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

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 MP for County Dublin. 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 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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