Colm de Bhailís
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![]() Engraving of Colm de Bhailís from the book "Aṁráın Ċuılm de Ḃaılís" published by Conradh na Gaeilge in 1904. | |
Born | Colm de Bhailís 2 May 1796 |
Died | (aged 109 years, 301 days) Oughterard, Ireland | 27 February 1906
Known for | Longevity |
Children | 1 |
Colm de Bhailís (2 May 1796 – 27 February 1906) was an Irish poet, songwriter, stonemason and centenarian who lived to be 109 years old.
Biography
De Bhailís was from Lettermullen, Connemara. A stonemason who traveled extensively throughout Ireland, he is believed to have lived for some time in Kilrush, County Clare, and Westport, County Mayo. Amhrán a Tae and Cúirt an tSrutháin Bhuí, were the best-known of the at least seventeen poems he is known to have written. He is recorded living at the poorhouse at Cregg, Oughterard. County Galway in the British census of 1901 as simply CW, aged 105. (Wallace being the anglicised version of his surname).[1]
Thanks to the efforts of Pádraig Pearse and Éamon de Valera he was moved from the poorhouse to lodge with the O'Toole family, Main Street, Oughterard. He lived until he was 109 years old, falling a few months shy of supercentenarian status, and was buried in Oughterard's Kilcummin Old Cemetery.[2]
Personal life and death
He was twice a widower. His second wife, Úna, died around 1900. He had a son by his first wife, Siobhán Frainc Ní Lochlainn. The boy was baptised Tomás and died in 1877, aged twenty-two.
Bibliography
- Amhrán Chuilm de Bhailís (1904), ed. by J.H. Lloyd, with notices by Douglas Hyde and Pádraig Pearse.
References
- ^ "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". Census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "Colm De Bhailìs | People". Oughterard Heritage. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
External links
- https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=11
- https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=11
- http://www.oughterardheritage.org/content/people/colm_de_bhails
- Profile, anghaeltacht.net; accessed 22 July 2017.
- Profile, jstor.org; accessed 22 July 2017.(subscription required)
- Works by Colm de Bhailís at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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