Life
1797-?1860 [P. F. Barron]; ed. Ancient Ireland: A Weekly
Magazine (1835), the first Irish-language periodical since Bolg
an tSolair, and designed to be strictly non-political; also compiled
An Irish Primer, Nos.1-3 (1836). RAF OCIL
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Works
Ancient Ireland: A Weekly Magazine, Vol.1 No.1, Jan. 1835-
to Vol.1, No.5 (May 1835), by Philip F. Barron of the County of Waterford,
Snr. 176pp [includes articles on ‘Ancient Monarchy of Ireland’,
‘Ancient Literature in Ireland’, ‘Topography and Geography
of Ireland’, ‘Cultivation of the Irish Language’, ‘The
Inhabitants of Ireland before the Milesians’, ‘Tracing the Progenitors
of the Milesian Colony’, ‘the Book of Leacan’, ‘&c.].
Also, An Irish Primer (1836), Nos.1-3.
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Criticism
Joep Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fíor Ghael (Amsterdam: Rodopi
1986), p.437 [infra].
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Commentary
Joep Leerssen, Mere
Irish & Fíor Ghael (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1986), remarks that
Ancient Ireland ran for five monthly issues, ‘to revive the
study of the Irish language, and to institute a vigorous inquiry into
the Antient History of Ireland (No.1, p.2); ‘necessary to
state, for the information of all, that this Magazine is to be solely
and altogether a literary publication. Politics and Polemics are totally
excluded from its pages.’ (Prospectus; NLI). Leerssen comments, ‘At
the same time, the issue quotes with approval a communication from an
anonymous corresponded who had ‘thrown away the English language
with contempt, and taken to our own language again.’ (p.437.)
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Notes
National
Library of Ireland holds copies of Ancient Ireland: A Weekly Magazine
(1835).
British Library holds copies of An Irish Primer (1836), Nos.1-3, 16o & 8o.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)