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Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

1795–1839 · 1 work on Laurel, 17 lines, all free to read

Glengarriff Harbour, County Cork, in a photograph of about 1890. Callanan was a Cork poet.
Glengarriff Harbour, County Cork, in a photograph of about 1890. Callanan was a Cork poet.

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan, or James Joseph Callanan (1795–1829), Irish poet, was born in Ballinhassig County Cork in 1795 to a medical family, died 19 September 1829 at the Hospital of São José, Lisbon, Portugal.

Callanan studied for Catholic priesthood at Maynooth College, and afterwards law at Trinity College, Dublin, where he won two prizes for his poems. He left in 1816 after determining he had no vocation.

He returned to Cork to become a tutor, though he subsequently entered Trinity College, Dublin, on an aborted idea of legal studies. With his financial resources exhausted, he enlisted in the 18th Royal Irish but was bought out by some friends.

Biography adapted from the Wikipedia article “Jeremiah Joseph Callanan”, CC BY-SA. Read it there.

Works

Poems · 1795–1839
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