Eugene O'Curry - Wikipedia Eugene O'Curry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Irish philologist and antiquary. Eugene O'Curry Photograph taken of Eugene Curry circa. 1850. Born (1794-11-20)20 November 1794 Doonaha, near Carrigaholt, County Clare, Ireland Died 30 July 1862(1862-07-30) (aged 67) Dublin, Ireland Occupation Scholar Eugene O'Curry (Irish: Eoghan Ó Comhraí or Eoghan Ó Comhraidhe, 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862) was an Irish philologist and antiquary. Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 References 4 External links Life[edit] He was born at Doonaha, near Carrigaholt, County Clare, the son of Eoghan Ó Comhraí, a farmer, and his wife Cáit. Eoghan had spent some time as a travelling pedlar and had developed an interest in Irish folklore and music. Unusually for someone of his background, he appears to have been literate and he is known to have possessed a number of Irish manuscripts. It is likely that Eoghan was primarily responsible for his son's education.[1] Having spent some years working on his father's farm and as a school teacher, Eugene O'Curry moved to Limerick in c. 1824 and spent seven years working there at a mental hospital. He married Anne Broughton, daughter of John Broughton of Killaderry near Broadford, County Limerick on 3 October 1824.[1] O'Curry was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation and in 1828 wrote a poem congratulating Daniel O'Connell on his election as an MP. During this period O'Curry was establishing a reputation for his knowledge of the Irish language and Irish history, and, by 1834, was in correspondence with the antiquary John O'Donovan. He was employed, from 1835 to 1842, on O'Donovan's recommendation, in the topographical and historical section of the Irish Ordnance Survey. O'Donovan went on to marry O'Curry's sister-in-law, Mary Anne Broughton, in 1840. O'Curry spent much of the remainder of his life in Dublin and earned his living by translating and copying Irish manuscripts; the catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum (1849) was compiled by him[2] for a fee of £100. O'Curry was responsible for the transcripts of Irish manuscripts from which O'Donovan edited The Annals of the Four Masters between 1848 and 1851.[1] In 1851 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and, on the founding of the Catholic University of Ireland in 1854, he was appointed professor of Irish history and archaeology.[1] He worked with George Petrie on the Ancient Music of Ireland (1855). In 1852, he and O'Donovan proposed the Dictionary of the Irish Language, which was eventually begun by the Royal Irish Academy in 1913 and finally completed in 1976. His lectures were published by the university in 1860, and give a better knowledge of Irish medieval literature than can be obtained from any other one source. Three other volumes of lectures were published posthumously, under the title On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish (1873). His voluminous transcripts, notably eight huge volumes of ancient Irish law, testify to his unremitting industry. The Celtic Society, of the council of which he was a member, published two of his translations of medieval tales.[2] He died of a heart attack, at his home in Dublin, on 30 July 1862, and was survived by two sons and two daughters.[1] He is buried at Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin. O'Curry Road in the Tenters area of Dublin 8 is named in his honour. O'Curry GAA club on the Loop Head peninsula and O'Curry Street in Kilkee are also named after him. Works[edit] Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, 1861 On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 1873 On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 1, 1873 On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 2, 1883 On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 3, 1873 As translator Ancient Laws of Ireland, translated by O'Donovan, John; O'Curry, Eugene, Alexander Thom (Dublin); Longman, Green , Longman, Roberts, and Green (London) Senchus Mor : Introduction to Senchus Mor, and Athgabhail; or, Law of Distress as contained in the Harleian manuscripts, 1, 1865 Ireland (1869), Senchus Mor Part II : Law of Distress (completed); Laws of Hostage-Sureties, Fosterage, Saer-Stock Tenure. Daer-Stock Tenure, and of Social Connexions, 2 Senchus Mor (conclusion), being the Corus Bescna or Customary Law and The Book of Aichill, 3, 1873 Din techtugad and other selected Brehon law tracts, 4, 1879 Uraicecht Becc and certain other selected Brehon law tracts, 5, 1901 Glossary, 6, 1901 References[edit] ^ a b c d e Profile, oxforddnb.com; accessed 22 November 2015. ^ a b Chisholm 1911.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "O'Curry, Eugene". Encyclopædia Britannica. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 994. External links[edit] "Eugene O'Curry", Catholic Encyclopedia, archived from the original on 3 March 2016 O Dalaigh, Brian (2004), "Eoghan O Comhrai and the Local Perspective", North Munster Antiquarian Journa, 44 Authority control BIBSYS: 90214278 GND: 1055175903 ISNI: 0000 0000 8080 0032 LCCN: no90014977 NLA: 35395028 NLI: 000100744 NTA: 148429203 RERO: 02-A006260292 SNAC: w61n8j8x SUDOC: 073012815 Trove: 937561 VcBA: 495/237938 VIAF: 381638 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no90014977 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugene_O%27Curry&oldid=990916181" Categories: 1794 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Irish people Disease-related deaths in Ireland 19th-century Irish historians Irish scholars and academics People from County Clare Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata EngvarB from October 2013 Use dmy dates from October 2013 Articles containing Irish-language text Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages Català Deutsch Gaeilge Edit links This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 06:49 (UTC). 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