Life
1794-1875; bookseller, printer, publisher, poet; ed. TCD, BA 1847; introduced
steam printing in Ireland, 1833; ed. Dublin Penny Journal from
1833 (acc. Hayley, 1987); also ed. Dublin Literary Gazette [later
National Magazine]; issued numerous religico-polemical works, and
tourist guides, as well as some collections of poetry, The Friend of
Ireland, containing an exposure of errors and superstitions of the Church
of Rome [vols. 1-10] (1838-39); The Northern Cottage, or The Effects
of Bible Reading (1842); The Inquisition (1849); The Maynooth
Grant considered religiously, morally, and politically (1853); Poetry,
Wellington (1814); Bertha, a Tale of Erin (1817); A Wreath
from the Emerald Isle (1826); The Pleasures of Religion and Other
Poems (1869) [sic DIH]; Travel, The Northern Tourist (1820);
The New Picture of Dublin (1831); The Holy Wells of Ireland
(1836); Hardy’s Tourists’ Guides through Ireland, In
Four Tours (1858). IF RAF DIH
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), cites
Legends, Tales and Stories of Ireland (Dublin 1837); Essays
and Sketches of Irish Life and Character; also, Ireland in 1846-47
considered in reference to the rapid growth of Popery, and works on
topography; tends to stage Irishry.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), gives bio-details: ran Dublin Penny Journal, and The National Magazine; works, Wellington, 3 cantos (1814); Bertha, a Tale of Erin, 6 cantos (1824); The Pleasures of Piety, poem (1827); also anthologies, The Harp of Zion, collection of Protestant hymns; Legends, Tales and Stories of Ireland (1837); Brown attributes to him Essays and Sketches of Irish Life and Character, and Ireland in 1846-7, considered in reference to the rapid growth of Popery, and topographical works.
Barbara Hayley, ‘A Reading and Thinking Nation: Periodicals as the Voice of Nineteenth-century Ireland’, in Hayley & Enda McKay, ed., Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals (Assoc. of Irish Learned Journals: Gigginstown, Mullingar 1987), pp.29-48; gives account of Hardy’s editorship of the Dublin Literary Gazette, which he commenced with intention of standing above party, put tending to write articles defending the Penal Laws: ‘Never were severe laws more mercifully administered; never was honour, humanity, and pity for a proscribed religion and people more tenderly exhibited.’ (‘Ireland viewed in its past and present state’, Vol. III, Feb. 1831, pp.129-30; Hayley, p.34.)
Hyland Books (Cat. 214) lists Tourist’s Guide, 3rd Tour, Lakes of Killarney, Cork, &c. (1st ed. 1859), maps. ills.
Barbara Hayley cites review of Petrie (Ten view [...] &c) in National
Magazine, 1830, under editorship of Charles Lover, Samuel’s uncle,
who handed over to Philip Dixon Hardy before its expiration in 1831. See
‘Irish Periodicals’, in Anglo-Irish Studies, ii (1976)
[pp.83-108], p.91. Further, Philip Dixon Hardy claims a loss of £250 on
the National Magazine, in addition to the £400 lost by the previous
proprietors, and losses of £1,000 and £2,000 are reported on penny magazines,
and quarterly journals alike.
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