Editing Timothy Daniel Sullivan

{{Short description|Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet}}
{{Other people|Timothy Sullivan}}
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| image        = Timothy Daniel Sullivan00.jpg
| office       = [[Lord Mayor of Dublin]]
| term_start   = 4 July 1886
| term_end     = 15 July 1888
| predecessor  = [[John O'Connor (Lord Mayor of Dublin)|John O'Connor]]
| successor    = [[Thomas Sexton (Irish politician)|Thomas Sexton]]
| office1      = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[West Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)|West Donegal]]
| term_start1  = 7 July 1892
| term_end1    = 25 October 1900
| predecessor1 = [[James Joseph Dalton]]
| successor1   = [[James Boyle (Irish Parliamentary Party politician)|James Boyle]]
| office2      = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[Dublin College Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Dublin College Green]]
| term_start2  = 1 December 1885
| term_end2    = 5 July 1892
| predecessor2 = New office
| successor2   = [[Joseph Edward Kenny]]
| office3      = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)|Westmeath]]
| term_start3  = 1 April 1880
| term_end3    = 25 November 1885
| predecessor3 = [[Patrick James Smyth]]<br />[[Lord Robert Montagu]]
| successor3   = Office abolished
| birth_name   = Timothy Daniel Sullivan
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1827|5|29|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Bantry]], [[County Cork]], Ireland 
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1914|3|14|1827|5|29|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| nationality  = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| party        = [[Irish Parliamentary Party]]
| spouse       = Catherine (Kate) Healy<br />{{small|(m. 1856; d. 1914)}}
| children     = 3
| relations    = {{Ubl|[[Alexander Martin Sullivan]] (Brother)|[[Kevin O'Higgins]] (Grandson)|[[Tom O'Higgins]] (Great-Grandson)|[[Michael O'Higgins]] (Brother-in-law)|[[Tim Healy (politician)|Tim Healy]] (Brother-in-law)}}
| alma_mater   = [[Trinity College Dublin]]
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'''Timothy Daniel Sullivan''' (29 May 1827 – 31 March 1914) was an Irish [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]], journalist, politician and poet who wrote the Irish national hymn "[[God Save Ireland]]", in 1867. He served as [[Lord Mayor of Dublin]] from 1886 to 1888 and a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) from 1880 to 1900.<ref name="ILv9" />

==Politician==
Sullivan was a member of the [[Home Rule League]], supporting [[Charles Stewart Parnell]] in the [[1880 United Kingdom general election in Ireland|1880 general election]], being "convinced that without self-government there could never be peace, prosperity or contentment in Ireland". He joined the [[Irish Parliamentary Party]] when it was established in 1882. When the party split in 1891, he became an [[Irish National Federation|Anti-Parnellite]] until the Nationalist factions were reunited in 1900.

Sullivan represented a number of constituencies in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. He was elected as an [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] for [[Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)|Westmeath]] in 1880 and served until 1885. In 1885, he was elected to the newly created constituency of [[Dublin College Green (UK Parliament constituency)|Dublin College Green]]. He joined the anti-Parnellite [[Irish National Federation]] in 1891, and was defeated by a [[Irish National League|Parnellite]] in the [[1892 United Kingdom general election in Ireland|1892 general election]]. Four days later he was returned unopposed for [[West Donegal (UK Parliament constituency)|West Donegal]] which he represented until he retired in 1900.<ref name="ILv9" />

He was [[Lord Mayor of Dublin]] in 1886 and 1887.<ref name="ILv9" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2020-09/lord-mayors-of-dublin-1665-2021.pdf|title=Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665–2021 |work=Dublin City Council|date=June 2020|access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref>

==Publicist==
He owned and edited a number of publications ([[The Nation (Irish newspaper)|''The Nation'']], ''Dublin Weekly News'' and ''Young Ireland''). In December 1887, he published reports of meetings by the [[Irish National League]]. As a result, he was convicted and imprisoned for two months under the [[Irish Coercion Act|Crimes Act]].<ref name="ILv9" />

As well as writing the Irish national hymn "[[God Save Ireland]]", he wrote the adopted anthem of the [[All-for-Ireland League]]: "[[All-for-Ireland League#League's Anthem|''All for Ireland! One for all!'']] and popular pieces such as ''[[Dear Old Ireland]]'', "Song from the Backwoods" and "Michael Dwyer".<ref>Dunboy, and Other Poems, Dublin, 1861</ref>

==Family==
He was married to Catherine (Kate) Healy who was the sister of Tim Healy, the first Governor General of the Irish Free State in 1922. A number of his descendants were people of outstanding distinction. His son [[Timothy Sullivan (Irish judge)|Timothy]] was [[Chief Justice of Ireland]] from 1936 to 1946. His daughter Frances was an Irish-language activist in {{lang|ga|Craobh an Chéitinnigh}}, the Keating branch of the [[Gaelic League]] (Conradh na Gaeilge) and a lecturer in Irish. His daughter Anne (who had sixteen children) was the mother of politician [[Kevin O'Higgins]], one of the dominant political figures of the 1920s. Sullivan's great-grandson [[Tom O'Higgins]] served as [[Chief Justice of Ireland]] from 1974 to 1985.<ref>{{cite book|last=De Vere White|first=Terence|title=Kevin O'Higgins|publisher=Methuen and Co.|location=London|year=1948}}</ref>

His brother, [[Alexander Martin Sullivan]], author of ''New Ireland'' and a fervent constitutional and cultural nationalist, was the owner and editor of ''The Nation'' after Gavan Duffy, and prior to Timothy Daniel Sullivan.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sullivan|first1=Timothy Daniel|title=A.M. Sullivan: A Memoir|date=1885|publisher=90 Middle Abbey Street|location=Dublin|pages=10–15}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="ILv9">McCarthy, Justin; Egan, Maurice Francis; Hyde, Douglas; Gregory, Lady; Roche, James Jeffrey; Welsh, Charles (Eds.)(1904). In ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tVIrAQAAIAAJ&dq=Timothy+Daniel+Sullivan&pg=PA3333 ''Irish Literature, Vol. IX'']''. Philadelphia: John D. Morris & Co. p. 3333. Google Book Search. Retrieved on 30 March 2011.</ref>}}

==Further reading==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-timothy-sullivan | Timothy Sullivan }}
* [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rotunda/Belvidere_Place/29832/ 1911 census return.]
* ''Who's Who of British members of parliament: Vol. II 1886–1918'', edited by M. Stenton & S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978)
* {{cite book|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922|editor-first=Brian M.|editor-last=Walker|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|year=1978}}

==Notes==
* Sullivan, T.D. (1905) ''[https://archive.org/details/recollectionstr00sullgoog Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics]''. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker; M.H. Gills & Son, Ltd. Retrieved on 30 March 2011.

==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-timothy-sullivan | Timothy Daniel Sullivan }}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=39886}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Timothy Daniel Sullivan |sopt=t}}
* ''[https://archive.org/stream/dunboyother00osul/dunboyother00osul_djvu.txt Dunboy, and Other Poems]'' by Timothy Daniel O'Sullivan. Fowler, Dublin. 1861
* ''[https://archive.org/details/irishnationalpoe00sull Irish National Poems]'', Timothy Daniel O'Sullivan (Ed.) Gill & Sons, Dublin, 1911

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