Democracy, Disestablishment, and Repeal: John Cornelius O'Callaghan and Irish Nationalist Periodical Culture from the Comet (1831) to the Nation (1842)

This article examines Irish periodical history between Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and the Great Famine by tracing the career of literary agitator John Cornelius O'Callaghan. O'Callaghan's work and associations with the Comet (1831–33), the Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature (1832–34), The Green Book (1840), and the Nation (1842–48) demonstrate shifts within Irish nationalism and provide us with a pivot around which to explore the evolving terrain of nineteenth-century Irish nationalist discourse.