Dr. Kurt Bullock is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish literature and critical theory and directs senior and master's-level theses. His area of scholarship is the work of Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett; he most recently published two chapters on MacDonagh and the Irish Review last summer: "From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review" in Ireland and the New Journalism (eds. Karen Steele, Michael de Nie); and "Literary Provocateur: Revival, Revolt, and the Censure of the Irish Review" in The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914 (ed. Gabriel Doherty).
See also Bibliography for further information on his scholarship
Dr. Kurt Bullock is an associate professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Irish literature and critical theory and directs senior and master's-level theses. His area of scholarship is the work of Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett; he most recently published two chapters on MacDonagh and the Irish Review last summer: "From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review" in Ireland and the New Journalism (eds. Karen Steele, Michael de Nie); and "Literary Provocateur: Revival, Revolt, and the Censure of the Irish Review" in The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914 (ed. Gabriel Doherty).
See also Bibliography for further information on his scholarship
The final issue of the Irish Review features another 'Manifesto to the Irish Volunteers' a document which illustrates the 1914 Volunteer split following Redmond’s exhortation to the Irish Volunteers to fight in the First World War. The foundational manifesto of the Irish Volunteers first appeared in the December 1913 issue of the Review after the Volunteers’ first meeting at the Rotunda on 25th November. The 1914 piece in the Review restates the initial priorities of the organisation and its unwillingness to compromise with Redmond’s decision. As a companion piece to this manifesto, the Review also published ‘Twenty Plain Facts for Irishmen’.
Frontispiece of the Irish Review with plate by Nathaniel Hone (January 1912)
Frontispiece of the January 1912 Irish Review with a plate by Nathaniel Hone entitled “The Wave.” Nathaniel Hone II (1831-1917) was connected with other important painters and art dealers on the Irish scene such as John B. Yeats, Sarah Purser and Hugh Lane.
Harry Clarke’s plate in the Irish Review
Plate for the July 1913 issue of the Irish Review by Harry Clarke. The plate “The Silver Apples of the Moon, the Golden Apples of the Sun” illustrates W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”
Frontispiece of the Irish Review with plate by Sarah Purser (February 1914)
Frontispiece of the February 1914 Irish Review with plate by Sarah Purser entitled “A Kinsale Fisherwoman.”
Frontispiece of the Irish Review with plate by George Russell (March 1913)
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