Thaddeus "Thady" Connellan () (1780–1854) was an Irish school-teacher, poet and historian.
Life He was born in Skreen, County Sligo, and was a relative of the scholar Owen Connellan. He started a school of his own, but had more success when he became principal of a school established by the Rev. Albert Blest'A Memoir Of Albert Blest: For Many Years Agent And Secretary For Ireland Of The London Hibernian Society (1843)' by Maiben Cunningham Motherwell. (father of William Cunningham Blest), a Baptist, supported by the London Hibernian Society in Greenville, Coolaney, in the early 1800s. Like his relative Owen he left the Catholic church and embraced Protestantism, around 1808.CONNELLAN, Thady (c.1775–1854) by Diarmuid Breathnach agus Máire Ní Mhurchú, anim.ie Among other works he produced an Irish-English dictionary and edited a series of song-books.W. G. Wood-Martin: History of Sligo, town and country. Hodges Figgis, Dublin, 1892Ó hAilín, T. (1968) "The Irish Society and Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin." Studia Hibernica, No 8., pp 60-78.
He died at Sligo, on 25 July 1854.
Publications English - Irish Dictionary intended for use of Schools, Dublin, 1814. Seanraite Sholaim a Ghaoidheilge agus mBearla – The Proverbs of Solomon in Irish and English, (1815) Litir an Ríogh a nGaoidheilge, ó Shaicsbhearla, 1825. An duanaire. Fonna seanma. A selection of Irish melodies, poems and moral epigrams, (1829)
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