Irishman, The

1.) The Irishman, published Denis Woulfe, trans. (c.1820) of Merriman, Cúirt an Mhéon-Oíche, expurgated version, 1880. [FDA]. 2.) The Irishman published Thomas O’Neill Russell’s argument for the revival of Irish in 1858. Contributors incl. Charles Joseph Kickham; also Seán Pléimann (life of Donnchadh Rua mac Con Mara, in The Irishman, 1881).

Founded by Joseph Brenan, The Irishman (Dublin Jan 1849-Aug 1850), the latter on the suppression of the Nation. [McKenna, 1978].

Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (1989), gives poems by Mangan and others incl. Richard D’Alton Williams; Michael Segrave; Mary Kelly; James Tighe, ‘T.C.D.’ [unknown]; John de Jean Frazer (‘The Last Appeal’), Thomas McGee; John Thomas Rowland, et al.; also anonymous: ‘Be Free’, Anon., vol 1, No. 31 (4 Aug. 1849), and ‘Thanatos’, anon. vol 1 No. 18, (5 May 1849). (See Morash, op. cit., at p.273ff.).

C. R. Maturin; In a sketch for The Irishman of 1849, James Clarence Mangan wrote of Maturin that he had ‘understood many people [though] no one understood him in any way.’ (see C. R. Maturin, q.v.)

Patrick James Smyth (1826-1885): escaped to American disguised as drover; planned the escape of John Mitchel; returned to Ireland, 1856; briefly owned ‘The Irishman’; MP, Westmeath, 1871-80; MP Tipperary, 1880-82; lost popularity in Ireland through hostility to Parnell and the Land League.[RX]

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