Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

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'The Trinity Alumini records record him as Pensioner admitted 6th July 1801, aged 15, Roman Catholic, son of Hogn Pyhsician educated Mr. Lee Vernon 1805 see Allibone."
The Callanans appear as apothecaries in Cork, Doctors, and are close to McCarthys, Nagles and O’Learys (of the ‘outlaw’ family Raleigh Macroom) and form a close network. It is from this background that JJ Callinan came. Later his friend Crofton Croker would comment ttaht he spent years living with various friends who were Doctors, Schoolteachers and surprisingly Policemen. One such Doctor was Doctor Burke who practised in the Swquare in Bnatry and was from A Cageragh Landownig family probably assocaited with the mccarthys according to the late Cork Historian John T Collins. It was in Bantry he wrote Gougán Barra.

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[Jeremiah Joseph; fam. ‘Gerry’]; b. Cork; intended for Maynooth and priesthood, he studied at TCD for 2 years, and joined British Army and and was a British Unionist in politics; entered TCD as a medical student, and won poetry prizes; taught in William Maginn’s school, Cork; contrib. to Bolster’s Quarterly and The Mercantile Chronicle; collected ballads and legends in Munster (now lost); his classic ballad “Gougane Barra” appeared in 1826; suffered from TB of the throat and travelled to Lisbon in search of health, 1827; d. in Lisbon, 29 Sept.; Collected Poems issued in 1861; ‘The Literary Remains of Jeremiah J. Callanan’ are held in the Royal Irish Academy as RIA MS 12.1.13; John Windele wrote a memoir (Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine, Vol. III, p.292). ODNB PI JMC DIB DIW DIH DIL MKA RAF OCIL FDA