Ellen Bridget O'Connell

Ellen Bridget O'Connell (1805–1883) was an Irish poet.

O'Connell was the third child and eldest daughter of Irish M.P., Daniel O'Connell. In 1825 she married Christopher Fitzsimon, a landowner and barrister twelve years older than she was. He died in 1856. Ellen died in London on 27 January 1883 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Her poems appeared in Irish Monthly, The Nation, Duffy's Fireside Magazine, the Dublin Review. A single book of poems was published in 1863.

Bibliography

Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems, Dublin, W.B. Kelly, 1863.

References

Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets, p. 174, Anne Ulry Colman, Kenny's Bookshop, Galway, 1996. ISBN 0 906312 442.

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Date of birth	1805
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