[Castle Townshend / Castletownsend] Hardy, Philip Dixon.

Dublin Penny Journal – Volume III – No.105 (July1834) – Volume IV – No.207 (June 1836) [With a rare appearance of two early images of “Castle Townsend” and “Castle Townsend Harbour” and a printed Letter from Cork, August 21, 1834 and another from Cork, August 25th, 1834 by F.H.T. on Castle Townsend and its Harbour. WIth a strong mention of places in the area like Toe Head, Gallyhead, Cape Clear, Sandy Cove, Reen, The Stags in the Harbour, sent to the Penny Journal by F.H.T. (possibly a member of the Townsend – Family)].

Two Volumes in One [Volume III and IV of the Dublin Penny Journal complete]. Dublin, Philip Dixon Hardy, July 1834 – June 1836. Quarto (19 cm wide x 27.7 cm high). Pagination: Volume III: Frontispiece, VII, [1 List of Engravings], 416 pages with 211 illustrations throughout Volume III / Volume IV: XVI, VII, [1 List of Engravings], 416 pages with 173 illustrations. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Binding poor and spine split but still holding. An extremely rare Volume with hundreds of interesting illustrations of local irish history, many of which are showing places in Munster.

With a fantastic amount of essays and illustrations on Local Irish History, Irish Antiquities, Irish Local History and Folklore.

Articles and illustrations for example include:

Phil Purcel – The Pig-Driver / Lismore Castle / Blue-Coat Hospital / Turf-Cutter’s Hut in the Bog of Allen / Inniscattery Island / Royal Exchange, Dublin (Illustrations of West Side and Front View) / Hibernian School in Phoenix Park /

Illustration of Fort Robert in County Cork
Illustration of Manche House [sic] (Manch House in County Cork)
Illustration of Castle Fogarty
Illustration of Lismore Castle and Surroundings
Illustration of Castle Frake (Castle Freke / Castlefreke) formerly called Rathbarry, the residence of Lord Carberry
Illustration of a Map of Mitchelstown Caves
Stalactite Cavern at Mitchelstown
Illustration of Liscarroll Castle in County Cork
Illustration of The Railway from the Road at Lord Cloncurry’s – Looking towards Kingstown
[with an Essay “The Dublin and Kingstown Railway”]
Illustration of Village of Warrenspoint
Illustration of “The Bechuana Boy” – African Sketches by Thomas Pringle
Illustration of Milltown
and many more

The Dublin Penny Journal was a weekly newspaper, and later series of published volumes, originating from Dublin, Ireland, between 1832 and 1836. Published each Saturday, by J. S. Folds, George Petrie, and Caesar Otway, the Penny Journal concerned itself with matters of Irish history, legend, topography, and Irish identity, and was illustrated with a number of maps and woodcuts. While originally a paper of low circulation – numbering only a few thousand in its first edition – the Penny Journal’s popularity led to increased production. By the cessation of publication in 1836, 206 works had been published in four volumes, and were sold wholesale in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Paris.

The first edition of the Dublin Penny Journal was published on 30 June 1832, three years after Catholic emancipation had culminated in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. It featured on its front page an illustration of “The Custom House and Harbour of Dublin” and its first article, “Historical Notice of the City of Dublin”. Other articles of the first publication included “the Age of Brass”, “Agriculture”, “A Visit to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of Dublin”, “Account of a Pestilence that raged in Ireland in the Year 1348” written by John Clyn, a friar from Kilkenny, and a collection of “Legends and Stories of Ireland”. The next 26 publications were printed through until 29 December, forming 216 pages of journal that would be assembled into the first of four volumes by 25 June 1833. The inclusion of several pieces of Irish culture, heritage and legend attracted a number of nationalist works; including Terence O’Toole’s National Emblems, which opened the second publication on 7 July with “Sir – Your wood-cut is, to my apprehension, as full of meaning to an Irishman, as any emblematic device I have seen. It represents peculiar marks or tokens or Ireland, which are dear to my soul”. The preface to the first volume of all publications between 1832 and 1833 discussed that the volumes were “calculated to effect a public good… by exciting a national and concordant feeling in a country in which there is, as yet, so much of discord and party”. By 1833 the journal had expanded to include more writers, such as C. P. Meehan, Philip Dixon Hardy, James Clarence Mangan, and John O’Donovan. Mangan in particular worked to translate German sources for the journal, and wrote letters under a pseudonym discussing the difficulties of the Irish language.

The Dublin Penny Journal continued to publish volumes until 1836. From the 53rd publication on 6 July 1833, a second volume was compiled – containing all publications from then to the 104th on 28 June 1834. This was published in June 1834 from the newly acquired Penny Journal Office in Dublin, and featured a harp and crown on the cover, cast above various items of Irish symbolism, including weapons and shamrocks. Numbers 105–156; 5 July 1834 – 27 June 1835 respectively, formed the third volume of the Penny Journal in June 1835, covered with another harp and other Irish symbolism and under the editor Philip Dixon Hardy. The preface took note of comments by Henry Brougham, then Lord High Chancellor of England, that an inexpensive journal could not be produced for widespread circulation, and made point to state “we have performed it”. Numbers 157 to 208, between 4 July 1835 and 25 June 1836, formed the fourth and final volume. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 19th Century · 19th Century – Rare · 19th century Magazine · Castletownsend (West Cork) · Castletownshend · Catalogue Irish History Five – Local Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Irish History – Rare · Irish Maritime History · Magazine · West Cork
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32428AB

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