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The tone of the Dublin University Magazine’s editor upon the publication of the magazine’s 100th issue was justifiably self-congratulatory. The 1830s did seem to mark the beginning of a resurgence in literary energy in Ireland, and ten years on, the DUM was still riding a wave of confidence, to a certain extent the result of Ireland’s finding its place again after the political and economic consequences of the Act of Union in 1801.
Previous to or since the Union , no Irish Magazine or Review ever attained the circulation, or existed for the same length of time we have now reached. Independent of the almost exclusive possession of the Irish market, we enjoy an extensive sale throughout England and Scotland: nay, there is not a single colony, where the language of Great Britain is spoken, into which our merits or our title, or it may be both, have not won us admission, and a demand continually increasing.
[James M’Glashan], “Postscript to our hundredth number”, Dublin University Magazine , 17 (April 1841): 528.
Hereafter DUM . For a complete bibliographical history of the magazine see the Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800–1900 , and Tom Clyde, Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive Bibliography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003).
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- 1.
See Michael Sadleir, ‘The Dublin University Magazine. Its History, Contents and Bibliography (A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 26 Apr. 1937)’ (Dublin: Bibliographical Society of Ireland ) 5.4 (1938), 59–85.
- 2.
Peter Denman disputes Samuel Ferguson’s involvement with the founding of the DUM , noting that Ferguson was living in London in 1833 and did not enrol in Trinity until 1834. See Denman , ‘Ferguson and Blackwood’s : The Formative Years’, Irish University Review 16.2 (1986), 141–158.
- 3.
DUM 16 (September 1840), 267.
- 4.
The official title of Trinity College Dublin (founded 1592) is ‘University of Dublin’.
- 5.
Wayne E. Hall, Dialogues in the Margin: A Study of the Dublin University Magazine (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999).
- 6.
Sadleir , 81.
- 7.
See Sadleir for a full list of variants and accompanying illustrations of title pages.
- 8.
The Irish Ecclesiastical Journal was published in Dublin from 1840 to 1852.
- 9.
The Protectionist was an English weekly paper, having as its raison d’être ‘the protection of British industry and British enterprise: agricultural, manufactural, shipping and colonial’. It had a short history, from 16 March 1850 to 6 April 1850 (See Waterloo Directory of English Periodicals ).
- 10.
Dublin University Magazine Advertiser for March [1850], 348.
- 11.
Ibid., 366.
- 12.
See Hall , 108–109.
- 13.
DUM , 19 (April 1842), 424.
- 14.
Ibid., 424.
- 15.
Ibid., 424.
- 16.
The title of the article is ‘THE LORD MAYOR’S “SHOW” (OF HIMSELF.): Observations on Corn Laws, Political Pravity, and Ingratitude; and on Clerical and Personal Slander; in the shape of a meek and modest reply to the Second Letter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, Waterford, and Wexford, to Ambrose Lisle Philips, Esq. By Daniel O’Connell, Lord Mayor of Dublin.’ 8vo. Machen, Dublin. 1842. Wellesley assigns this review to Lever .
- 17.
DUM 19 (April 1842), 460.
- 18.
Ibid., 504.
- 19.
Mortimer and Samuel O’Sullivan, both frequent contributors to the magazine. See Wellesley .
- 20.
DUM 19 (May 1842), 603.
- 21.
DUM 19 (June 1842), 736.
- 22.
DUM 19 (July 1842), 124.
- 23.
John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers (Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1976; rpt. 1978), 165.
- 24.
Ibid., 165.
- 25.
Nation (20 May 1843), 504.
- 26.
Nation (10 June 1843), 554.
- 27.
Ibid., 554.
- 28.
Ibid., 554.
- 29.
Nation (23 September 1843), 794–795.
- 30.
Ibid., 795.
- 31.
‘The “Dublin University Magazine” and Mr. Lever’ , Nation (7 October 1843), 826.
- 32.
Ibid., 826.
- 33.
Ibid., 826.
- 34.
Thomas Davis, in Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Davis: The Memoirs of an Irish Patriot (London: Kegan, Paul, 1890), 55. As Wayne Hall has noted, Carleton published work again in the DUM from 1846 on, following the departure of Lever . See Hall , ‘Le Fanu’s House by the Marketplace’, in Gary William Crawford, et al, Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2011), 174.
- 35.
See S.P. Haddelsey, Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian (Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 2000).
- 36.
McCormack , Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (Dublin: Lilliput, 1991), 86–7.
- 37.
Cheyne Brady was editor/proprietor from 1856 to 1861.
- 38.
W.J. McCormack, ‘“Never put your name to an anonymous letter”: Serial Reading in the ‘Dublin University Magazine’, 1861 to 1869 (The Yearbook of English Studies, 26 (1996), 100–115, 108).
- 39.
W.J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu, 203.
- 40.
Though see Sadleir , who says Le Fanu “re-nationalised” the magazine: “In 1861 Le Fanu bought the paper lock, stock and barrel from Hurst & Blackett. Immediately it was both improved and re-nationalised” (Sadleir , 78).
- 41.
W.J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu, 201.
- 42.
‘Notes on the Condition of Ireland’, DUM, 64 (July 1864), 110–20.
- 43.
‘Poland During the Insurrection of 1863–64’, DUM, 64 (October 1864), 436–446.
- 44.
Ibid., 446.
- 45.
The polemics of the O’Sullivan brothers—Mortimer and Samuel —might be recalled here: for them the enemy was often cunning, secret, and Catholic. Both brothers wrote for the DUM during the 1830s. See Wellesley.
- 46.
‘England and her Colonies’, DUM 64 (November 1864), 483–496.
- 47.
Ibid., 483.
- 48.
Ibid., 488.
- 49.
‘Italy in 1864’, DUM 64 (December 1864), 637.
- 50.
The literature on the theory of periodical production is substantial. Foremost are the tentative articles in a special ‘theory’ issue of Victorian Periodicals Review in 1989. The fall 2015 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review , again a special ‘theory’ number, is both retrospective and inclusive of new theories possible as a result of the revolution in digital humanities.
- 51.
The literature on this subject includes Marjorie Howes, ‘Misalliance and Anglo-Irish Tradition in Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas ,’ Nineteenth-Century Literature, 47.2 (1992), 164–186, 165, and Victor Sage, Le Fanu’s Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness (Palgrave, 2003).
- 52.
W.J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu, 157.
- 53.
The story was placed between an article on ‘The Suppression of Protestant Charities’ and a long poem entitled ‘The Dressed Grave’: “The faithful urn fell into dust/ And mingled with the dust it held”.
- 54.
See ‘Introduction’ to Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, ed. Elizabeth Bowen (London: The Cresset Press, 1947), 8.
- 55.
W.J. McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu, 190.
- 56.
Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), 279.
- 57.
McCormack, Sheridan Le Fanu, 202.
- 58.
See Margaret Beetham, ‘Towards a Theory of the Periodical as a Publishing Genre’, in Laurel Brake, Aled Jones, and Lionel Madden, eds., Investigating Victorian Journalism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), 19–32.
- 59.
‘Charles Lever’, DUM , 80 (July 1872), 109.
- 60.
‘Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’ , DUM , 81 (March 1873), 320.
- 61.
See Elizabeth Tilley, ‘J.S. LeFanu, Gothic, and the Irish Periodical’, in Niall Gillespie and Christina Morin, eds., Irish Gothics (Palgrave, 2014), 130–147.
- 62.
See Hall , Chapter 8.
- 63.
See Hall , 220.
- 64.
The connections between Joyce and Le Fanu have been widely noted, particularly Joyce’s reference to Le Fanu’s 1863 novel The House by the Churchyard in Finnegan’s Wake .
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Tilley, E. (2020). The National Journal. In: The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. New Directions in Book History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30073-9_4
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