Terence L. Connolly
Terence Leo Connolly SJ (26 September 1888 – 24 March 1961) was an American Roman Catholic priest, librarian and educator.
Biography
Terence Connolly was born at North Attleborough, Massachusetts, the son of Terence Connolly and his wife Catherine (née Hayden). In 1908, Connolly entered the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson in New York, where he studied for four years. he was ordained a priest in 1922, having studied and taught at Woodstock College, Fordham University and Georgetown University. In 1929, Connolly became a professor of English and head of the English Department at Boston College.
Connolly had an interest in Catholic poetry, particularly the works of Francis Thompson. He traveled extensively in England and Ireland. In 1946, Connolly became director of the Boston College libraries, and remained in the role until he was named director of special collections in 1959. In 1976, Boston College named Connolly House, its new faculty center in Chestnut Hill, in tribute to him and to his successor as Boston College Librarian, a fellow Jesuit named Brendan Connolly.
He was a member of the Modern Language Association, the Medieval Academy of America and the Catholic Renascence Society.
See also
Works
- An Introduction to Chaucer and Langland (1925; a corrective of William J. Long's history of English literature)
- Francis Thompson, Poems (1932; edited with biographical and textual notes by Terence L. Connolly)
- Bernard of Clairvaux, The Book of Saint Bernard on the Love of God (1935; translated from the Latin by Terence L. Connolly)
- An Account of Books and Manuscripts of Francis Thompson (1937)
- Coventry Patmore, Mystical Poems of Nuptial Love. The Wedding Sermon, The Unknown Eros and Other Odes (1938; edited with notes by Terence L. Connolly)
- Francis Thompson: In His Paths (1944)
- Alice Meynell Centenary Tribute, 1847-1947 (1948; editor)
- Francis Thompson, Literary Criticisms (1948; newly discovered and collected by Terence L. Connolly)
- Francis Thompson, The Man Has Wings: New Poems and Plays (1957; edited with preface and notes by Terence L. Connolly)
- Francis Thompson, The Real Robert Louis Stevenson, and Other Critical Essays (1959; editor)
References
- Dunigan, David R. (1947). A History of Boston College. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company.
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- 1888 births
- 1961 deaths
- 20th-century American educators
- 20th-century American Jesuits
- 20th-century American translators
- American Roman Catholic writers
- Boston College alumni
- Boston College faculty
- Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- Francis Thompson scholars
- Librarians from Massachusetts
- People from North Attleborough, Massachusetts