James Duffy (Irish publisher)
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James Duffy (1809–1871) was a prominent 19th century Irish book publisher. He was born in Monaghan.
His company, James Duffy and Sons was one of the major publishers of Irish nationalist books, bibles, magazines, Missals and religious texts throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. He was described as having "invented a new kind of cosy family Catholicism."[1]
Among the magazines he published were
- Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine (1847)
- Catholic Guardian
- Christian Family Library
- Duffy's Hibernian Magazine
- Illustrated Dublin Journal
- Duffy's Fireside Magazine: A Monthly Miscellany (November 1850–October 1852) (price: 4d)
- Duffy's Hibernian Sixpence Magazine (ceased publication in 1864)
Duffy's magazines are seen as a forerunner for Ireland's Own today.
Among books published were
- an 1861 edition of the Douay Bible, a copy of which is owned by the Central Catholic Library in Dublin
- John O'Hart, Irish landed gentry: when Cromwell came to Ireland (Dublin: James Duffy & Sons, 1887)
- Brian Murphy, Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal (Dublin, James Duffy & Co., 1991)
- John O’Hanlon, Lives of the Irish Saints, Vol 6 (James Duffy and Sons, 1891)
The publishing house was based at Number 7, Wellington Quay, Dublin.
