Ellen Fitzsimon
Ellen Fitzsimon was an Irish poet.Biography
Ellen Fitzsimon was born Ellen Bridget O'Connell at Derrynane House, the third child and eldest daughter of Daniel and Mary O'Connell. She was well educated and spoke a number of languages. She was a close political ally of her father. Her poems appeared in Irish Monthly, The Nation, Duffy's Fireside Magazine, the Dublin Review. A single book of poems, Derrynane Abbey in 1832, and other Poems, was published in 1863.
On 25 July 1825, she married Christopher Fitzsimon Esq. of Glencullen, Golden Ball, Co. Dublin, who was Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and M.P. for Dublin County. The couple had 13 children:
- Thomas Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Mary O'Connell Fitzsimon, married Henry Edmond Redmond
- Daniel O'Connell Fitzsimon
- Christopher O'Connell Fitzsimon
- Henry Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Thomas Fitzsimon
- Henry O'Connell Fitzsimon
- Ellen Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Ellen "Eily" O'Connell Fitzsimon, married Charles Bianconi jnr, son of Charles Bianconi
- Maurice Fitzsimon, died in infancy
- Catherine Henrietta O'Connell Fitzsimon
- Maurice "Mossy" O'Connell Fitzsimon, died at 13
- Morgan O'Connell Fitzsimon, died in infancy
Fitzsimon died in London on 27 January 1883 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
