Timothy Daniel Sullivan

Timothy Daniel Sullivan (29 May1827-31 March1914) wrote the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland", in 1867. A journalist, nationalist politician and poet, he was the brother of Alexander Martin Sullivan, also a journalist and politician. He was born at Bantry, County Cork. He was a member of the Home Rule League, supporting Charles Stewart Parnell in the 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 Anti-Parnellite until the Nationalist factions were reunited in 1900. He represented a number of constituencies in the House of Commons. He was elected from Westmeath in 1880 and served until 1885. He then became the first MP from Dublin College Green until he was defeated by a Parnellite in the 1892 general election. Four days later he was returned unopposed for West Donegal which he represented until he retired in 1900. He owned and edited a number of publications (The Nation, Dublin Weekly News and Young Ireland). In December 1887 he published reports of meetings by the National League. As a result he was convicted and imprisoned for two months under the Crimes Act. Sullivan was Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1886 and 1887. His 1911 census return is available here http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rotunda/Belvidere_Place/29832/.

Autobiography

Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics, Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker/M. H. Gill & Son, 1905
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/irish/trouble/irishpolitics.html

References

• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Vol. II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton & S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978)
• Who Was Who, 1897-1916
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)