Dublin University Review, The

Founded by T.W. Rolleston on his return from America and edited by him 1885-86. [marked error; but partly corroborated in A N Jeffares, W B Yeats: A New Life (1988), p.21.]

Douglas Hyde: He became involved with Dublin Univ. Review, founded by Charles Hubert Oldham in Feb. 1885 as ‘a monthly magazine of literature, art, and university intelligence’: ‘without sinking into mere provincialism .. the Review can assume and maintain a distinctly national tone .. the vexed questions of current politics the Review has nothing whatever to do .. propriety of the institution from which we have derived our title.’ (Ed., Feb. 1885). [55] After a few months, TW Rolleston took over the editorship. [Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde, 1974, p.56]

??Dublin University Reviewand Quarterly started in the same month as DUM, Jan. 1833, had manyof the same contributors but lasted only a year; it belongs to the smallnumber of uncontentious Irish magazines .. as well as William Rowan Hamilton’ssonnets, it included imitations and translations of classical poetry,verses in Spanish, discussions of natural phenomena, continental booksreviewed, [&c; q. source].

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