The Dublin University Magazine

Dublin University Magazine, The (1833-1877), a monthly journal of literature and ideas founded by a group of young Unionist conservatives at or linked with TCD after the passage of Catholic Emancipation and the Reform Bill. Amongst the founders were John Anster, Isaac Butt, Samuel Ferguson, and Caesar Otway. It was first edited by Stanford, followed by Butt (1834-8), Charles Lever (1842-5), and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1861-9), who was also proprietor, and others. Amongst its contributors were the editors themselves—Lever's The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer was serialized 1837-40—and the major writers of Victorian Ireland: Carleton, Ferguson, Mangan, O'Donovan, and Sir William Wilde. Strongly anti-liberal in its views from the start, the journal never deviated from boldly asserting Protestant Unionist convictions.