Ellen Fitzsimon

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Ellen Fitzsimon
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Born
Ellen Bridget O'Connell

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Derrynane House, County Kerry
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Blackheath, London, England
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Kensal Green Cemetery
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Ellen Fitzsimon (1805 – 27 January 1883) was an Irish poet from a politically prominent family. Her work was published in major periodicals, and at least two of her poems became songs associated with the Irish diaspora.[1][2][3]

Early life

Ellen Fitzsimon was born Ellen Bridget O'Connell at Derrynane House, County Kerry, the third child and eldest daughter of Daniel and Mary O'Connell.[3] She was well educated and spoke a number of languages. She was a close political ally of her father,[4] and often included her maiden name in her published bylines, to remind readers of their connection.[5]

Literary career

Fitzsimon's poems appeared in Irish Monthly,[6] The Nation, The Month,[7] Duffy's Fireside Magazine, and the Dublin Review. A single book of poems, Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems, was published in 1863.[1] Her sentimental verses about Irish emigration were described as "pathetic and beautiful compositions" in 1911.[3] She was said to be working on a biography of her father in her later years.[8]

Publications

  • Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other poems (1863)[1]
  • "Pay for the Ounces: A Legend of Italy" (1864, story)[7]
  • "Sonnet" (1873)[9]
  • "The Legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria" (1873)[10]
  • "The Pleasant Places of the Long Ago" (1874)[6]
  • "The Bird at Mass" (1874)[11]
  • "The Song of the Irish Emigrant in America" (1907)[12]

Personal life

On 25 July 1825, O'Connell married Christopher Fitzsimon, Esq., of Glencullen, County Dublin. Her husband was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and MP for County Dublin. The couple had thirteen children, five of whom died in infancy.[2] Their daughter Ellen married Charles Bianconi Jr., son of entrepreneur Charles Bianconi.[13]

Fitzsimon's husband died in 1856, and she died in 1883, in her seventies, at her daughter's house in Blackheath.[8] She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[14] She was survived by four of her children: Kathleen (Mrs. George Ludlow Kennedy Hewett), Ellen (Mrs. Bianconi), Henry, and Christopher.[2] Her grave is in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.O'Connell, Basil Morgan. The O'Connell Family Tracts 1. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brennan, Martin (6 April 1911). "Less Known Irish Songs and Authors: Mrs. Ellen Fitzsimon". The Catholic Weekly. p. 35. Retrieved 21 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Family". Derrynane House. The Office of Public Works. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gladstone's Cousin and her Adopted Daughter". The Irish Monthly. 32 (377): 641. November 1904.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fitzsimon, Ellen (December 1874). "The Pleasant Places of Long Ago". The Irish Monthly. 3: 555–556.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fitzsimon, Ellen (1864). "Pay for the Ounces: A Legend of Italy". The Month: 369–382.
  8. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Passed Away". New Zealand Times. 16 April 1883. p. 3. Retrieved 21 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fitzsimon, Ellen. "Sonnet". The Irish Monthly. 2: 143.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fitzsimon, Ellen (1873). "The Legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria". The Irish Monthly. 2: 204–207.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fitzsimon, Ellen (December 1874). "The Bird at Mass". The Irish Monthly. 3: 674–675.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Welsh, Charles (1907). The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics. Dodge publishing Company. pp. 314–316.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  14. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The O'Connell Papers. Part X". The Irish Monthly. 11 (118): 219–226. 1883. ISSN 2009-2113. JSTOR 20496948.

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