Social Victorians/People/Thomas Patrick Gill

Also Known As

• Family name: Gill
• T. P. Gill
• VIAF: 68480462

Demographics

• Nationality: Irish

Residences

• Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland
• Lower Abbey Street, London (in 1901)

Family

• Thomas Patrick Gill (1858 - 1931)
• Annie Fennell ()

1. 3 children

Relations

• Cousin, Evelyn Gleeson, who knew Lady Gregory and the Yeatses (Murphy 117)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Acquaintances

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Maud Gonne
• Sir Horace Plunkett
• Joseph Marshall Stoddart
• Oscar Wilde
• William Morris

Friends

• Charles Stewart Parnell

Leaders in the Irish Independence Movement

• Parnell
• J. Redmond
• J. J. Clancy
• T. Condon
• T. M. Healy
• O'Brien

Organizations

• Trinity College, Dublin
• Irish Parliamentary Party
• House of Commons, Parliament (1885–1892)
• Recess Committee, member and Honorary Secretary (1895–1898)
• Department of Agriculture, Secretary (1900–1923)
• Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry
• Catholic World, New York

Occupations

• Journalist
• Editor, Catholic World, New York
• Member of Parliament

Timeline

1882, Thomas Patrick Gill and Annie Fennell of Dublin married.

1889 August 30, Stoddart was present at the dinner at the Langham Hotel with Wilde, Stoddart and Conan Doyle.

1890–1891, the Parnell Split, in which Gill played an active part (Callanan 72–90).

1890s, early, George Egerton (Mary Chavita Dunne Clairemont) sent T. P. Gill some stories under her male pseudonym; he advised the writer to "tone down some of the more eroticized descriptions lest they should lead the excitable male students reading them to flounder haplessly between the Scylla and Charybdis of prostitution and masterbation" (Dutta 24). Dutta says, "Gill was later thoroughly embarrassed to discover that he had been corresponding with a lady! Egerton generously/ironically (?) dedicated her second volume of short stories, Discords (1894), to T. P. Gill" (24, n. 1).

1904, Irish Industrial Exhibition at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. There was an Irish Industrial Village.

1906, Gill probably wrote the Introductory Note to the 1906 reprinting of Edmund Leamy's 1890 Irish Fairy Tales.

1911–1913, George Moore's Hail and Farewell (published 1911, 1912 and 1913) gives a "bit part to the nationalist T. P. Gill, and in one of the finest set-pieces in Hail and Farewell, he gleefully tells the tale of Gill's futile attempt at self-creation. An inconsequential man, Gill is prodded into his own birth throes quite accidentally. Having fallen asleep in a barber's chair in Paris, he awakens with a new Henri Quatre beard:

It was not until the barber gave him the glass that he felt the sudden transformation — felt rather than saw, for the transformation effected in his face was little compared with that which had happened in his soul. In the beginning was the beard, and the beard was with God, who in this case happened to be a barber; and glory be to the Lord and to his shears that a statesman of the Renaissance walked that day up the Champs Elysées. ... As he walked it seemed to him all the learning of his time had sprung up in him. He found himself like the great men of the sixteenth century, well versed in the arts of war and peace, a patron of the arts and sciences. (HF 130–31) (Grubgeld 128)

Bibliography

• Callanan, Frank. The Parnell Split, 1890–1891. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992.
• Dutta, Shanta. "George Egerton: Redefining 'Woman' in Victorian Patriarchy." In Moneta's Veil: Essays in Nineteenth Century Literature, Ed., Malabika Sarkar. New Delhi, India: Dorling Kindersley, 2010: 23–33.
• Grubgeld, Elizabeth. George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
• Keenan, Desmond. Ireland 1850–1920. Xlibris, 2005. Google Books.

Murphy, William Michael. Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

• "T. P. Gill." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._P._Gill (accessed January 2015).
• "T. P. Gill Papers" in the National Library of Ireland
• Walsh, Peter. Thomas Patrick Gill (1959-1931): Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. University of Limerick, 2000. [dissertation?]

Works by Gill

• Gill, T. P. "The Farmer and the Labourer: A Talk with Farmers." Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction Journal April 1908 (8:3): 409–422. ("An Address delivered before the Tipperary Farmers' Society in the Town Hall, Tipperary, February 15, 1908.")
• Gill, T. P. "The Farmer and the Labourer: A Talk with Labourers." Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction Journal July 1908 (8:4): 635–650. ("An Address to the North Tipperary Land and Labour Association, in the Town Hall, Nenagh, May 17, 1908.")
• Gill, T. P. "The Home Rule Constitutions of the British Empire." The Irish Press Agency, 1887.
• Gill, T. P. Irish Industrial Exhibition. World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, Handbook and Catalog of Exhibits. 3 parts. St. Louis: Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, 1904.
• Gill, T. P. "North and South in National Work: An Address." Irish Technical Instruction Association, 1914.
• Gill, T. P. "Parliament or Congress?" CR May 1888: 2639.
• Paul-Dubois, Louis François Alphonse. The Irish Struggle and Its Results. Trans. and Ed., T. P. Gill. Londgans, Green, 1934.