Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)

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The Dublin Review was an influential Catholic periodical founded in 1836 by Michael Joseph Quin, Cardinal Wiseman and Daniel O'Connell. Quin had the original idea for the new journal, soon persuading Wiseman to lend his support, and next enlisting O'Connell whose Catholic Emancipation campaign he admired. Quin edited the first two issues before leaving to take up a post in the Spanish colonial service. This fell through, but O'Connell would not re-instate him as editor, nor allow him to continue as co-proprietor.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "The review was intended to provide a record of current thought for educated Catholics and at the same time to be an exponent of Catholic views to non-Catholic inquirers." Its editors and contributors included many well-known writers discussing current affairs alongside religious, literary and historical topics.

The name was chosen because Dublin was a centre of Catholic culture, and it echoed the title of the flourishing Edinburgh Review, but the journal was actually published in London: quarterly at first, then monthly, continuing until 1969.

[edit] Editors, proprietors, publishers

Partial list

• Mark Aloysius Tierney, editor c1837
• Henry Bagshawe, editor 1837-
• Charles William Russell, helped edit in Wiseman's time
• Charles Dolman, publisher 1838-1844
• William George Ward, owned and edited during 1860s and part of 1870s
• Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas, owner from 1878
• Dr Hedley, editor late 1870s
• Cardinal Manning, proprietor
• James Moyes, editor until 1903
• Wilfrid Philip Ward, owner and editor
• Shane Leslie, editor 1916-1926
• Christopher Dawson, editor 1940-

[edit] Sources

• Catholic Encyclopedia (1911): article on Periodical Literature (England)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[edit] External links

Some 19th century editions can be read online here.