DUBLIN REVIEW

A Catholic quarterly, founded by Nicholas wiseman, the future cardinal archbishop of Westminster, and Daniel O'Connell, the Irish politician, in May 1836 as a literary, historical, and religious journal. The name was misleading. Despite a green cover, its connection with Dublin itself was only nominal: it was always published in London. From 1837 to 1863 it was edited by a barrister, H. R. Bagshawe. Wiseman transferred ownership to Henry Edward manning, the future archbishop of Westminster, and Manning appointed William George ward as editor, thus ensuring the continuity of the ultramontane tradition in which it had been founded. Ward retired in 1878, and the ownership passed to Herbert vaughan, who appointed Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B., as editor. He resigned on his appointment as bishop, and the editorship shortly afterwards passed to James Moyes, canon theologian of Westminster, who made it much more ecclesiastically oriented. Wilfrid ward took over in 1906, and edited the Dublin Review until 1915. He gave it much greater scope, and through his wide range of contacts brought many distinguished authors to its pages. Not all of these authors were Roman Catholic, and some came from overseas, including the Italian priest-politician Luigi sturzo and Cardinal faulhaber. Though from Vaughan's death in 1903 it belonged to the diocese of Westminster, the quarterly was published by the firm of Burns and Oates, for which Ward worked, and Burns and Oates from then on supplied the editor. These included several of the Catholic intellectuals of the day: the writer Sir Shane Leslie, the historian Denis Gwynn and the future editor of The Tablet Tom Burns. In the early years of the Second World War the review was edited by Christopher Dawson, supported by Barbara Ward, and used by them to promote the policies of the Sword of the Spirit, an organization they had helped to found to unite Christian opinion in Britain behind the government's war aims. In the years after the war, circulation of the Dublin Review was not high. In an attempt to renew interest, and to make it sound, perhaps, less "foreign," the lawyer and journalist Norman St-John Stevas, later Baron St. John of Fawsley, changed the name to the Wiseman Review when he took over editorship in 1961. He changed it back again in 1964. Circulation, however, continued to decline and in 1969, at the request of the archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Heenan, it was incorporated into the British Jesuit publication, The month.

Bibliography: j. l. altholz, The Religious Press in Britain, 1760–1900 (Westport, Conn. 1989). j. j. dwyer, "The Catholic Press, 1850–1950," in g. a. beck, ed., The English Catholics, 1850–1950 (London 1950) 475–514.

[m. j. walsh]