Francis McCullagh
Francis McCullagh (1874 - 26 November 1956) was a British journalist, war correspondent[1] and author.
Career overview
McCullagh was born in Dungannon in Northern Ireland in 1874. He worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald, from 1898. In 1903 he was living in Japan, working for the English language newspaper The Japan Times. Observing the growing tension between the Empire of Japan and Russian Empire, he studied the Russian language, and moved to Port Arthur, the major Russian military base in Manchuria in 1904. Obtaining a post as a for the Novi Kraï (New Land) newspaper of Port Arthur, at the start of the Russo-Japanese War he became a non-military observer embedded within the Imperial Russian Army.[2] At war's end, he was evacuated in March 1905 as a prisoner of war, traveling from Dalny to Ujina on the Nippon Yusen liner Awa Maru.[3] His experiences were published in 1906 as With the Cossacks; Being the Story of an Irishman who Rode with the Cossacks throughout the Russo-Japanese War.
He subsequently returned to Russia to cover the Siberian Intervention during the Russian Civil War, and at one point was captured by the Bolshevik Red Army.
He also covered the Spanish Civil War in 1937.[4]
McCullagh died in White Plains, New York in 1956.
Notes
- ↑ "Has the War Correspondent Seen His Last Fight?," Review of Reviews and World's Work, Vol. XLVII, 1913.
- ↑ McCullagh, Francis. (1906). With the Cossacks, pp. 3-4., p. 3, at Google Books
- ↑ McCullagh, pp. 372-386., p. 372, at Google Books; note Hiroshima's port is also known as Ujina.
- ↑ "Journalists in Franco's Spain," Catholic Herald, 22 October 1937.
Works
- (1905). With the Cossacks; Being the Story of an Irishman who Rode with the Cossacks Throughout the Russo-Japanese War. London: Eveleigh Nash. OCLC 777525 [Reprinted by Naval and Military Press, 2009].
- (1910). The Fall of Abdul-Hamid, Methuen & Co., Ltd.
- (1912). Italy's War for a Desert, Being Some Experiences of a War-Correspondent with the Italians in Tripoli. London, Herbert and Daniel.
- (1921). A Prisoner of the Reds, the Story of a British Officer Captured in Siberia. London. John Murray.
- (1924). The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity. New York, E. P. Dutton [1st Pub. London, John Murray, 1924].
- (1928). Red Mexico; A Reign of Terror in America. New York, L. Carrier & Co.
- (1937). In Franco's Spain: Being the Experiences of an Irish War Correspondent During the Great Civil War. London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne, Ltd.
Selected articles
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Further reading
- Horgan, John (2009). "Journalism, Catholicism and Anti-Communism in an Era of Revolution: Francis McCullagh, War Correspondent, 1874-1956," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 390, pp. 169–184.
- McNamara, Patrick J. (2006). "Russia, Rome, and Recognition: American Catholics and Anticommunism in the 1920s," U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 71–88.
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