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Life
1797-?1860 [P. F. Barron]; ed. Ancient Ireland: A Weekly Magazine (1835), the first Irish-language periodical since Bolg an tSolair, and designed to be strictly non-political; also compiled An Irish Primer, Nos.1-3 (1836). RAF OCIL
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Works
Ancient Ireland: A Weekly Magazine, Vol.1 No.1, Jan. 1835-
to Vol.1, No.5 (May 1835), by Philip F. Barron of the County of Waterford, Snr. 176pp [includes articles on ‘Ancient Monarchy of Ireland’, ‘Ancient Literature in Ireland’, ‘Topography and Geography
of Ireland’, ‘Cultivation of the Irish Language’, ‘The Inhabitants of Ireland before the Milesians’, ‘Tracing the Progenitors of the Milesian Colony’, ‘the Book of Leacan’, ‘&c.]. Also, An Irish Primer (1836), Nos.1-3.
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Criticism
Joep Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1986), p.437 [infra].
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Commentary
Joep Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1986), remarks that Ancient Ireland ran for five monthly issues, ‘to revive the study of the Irish language, and to institute a vigorous inquiry into the Antient History of Ireland (No.1, p.2); ‘necessary to state, for the information of all, that this Magazine is to be solely and altogether a literary publication. Politics and Polemics are totally excluded from its pages.’ (Prospectus; NLI). Leerssen comments, ‘At the same time, the issue quotes with approval a communication from an anonymous corresponded who had ‘thrown away the English language with contempt, and taken to our own language again.’ (p.437.)
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References
National Library of Ireland holds copies of Ancient Ireland: A Weekly Magazine (1835).
British Library holds copies of An Irish Primer (1836), Nos.1-3, 16o & 8o.
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