Philip Dixon Hardy

Philip Dixon Hardy (1794 - 1875) was an Irish poet, bookseller, printer and publisher. He introduced the use of steam-powered printing presses in Ireland in 1833.^[1]

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He edited the Dublin Penny Journal from 1833. This newspaper was published between 1832 and 1836 and issued each Saturday, by J. S. Folds, George Petrie and Caesar Otway.^[2] He also edited the Dublin Literary Gazette (later the National Magazine).^[3]

Selected works

Poetry

• Wellington (1814)
• Bertha, a Tale of Erin (1817)
• A Wreath from the Emerald Isle (1826)
• The Pleasures of Religion and Other Poems (1869)

Travel

• The Northern Tourist (1820)
• The New Picture of Dublin (1831)
• The Holy Wells of Ireland (1836)
• Hardy’s Tourists’ Guides through Ireland, In Four Tours (1858)

Other

• The Friend of Ireland, containing an exposure of errors and superstitions of the Church of Rome [vols. 1-10] (1838–39)
• The Northern Cottage, or The Effects of Bible Reading (1842)
• Simple Memorials of an Irish Family (1843)
• The Inquisition (1849)
• The Maynooth Grant considered religiously, morally, and politically (1853)

References

1. Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore (Pt. I) (Dublin: Maunsel 1919)
2. Welch, Robert (1988). A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789-1897. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 101–103. ISBN 0-86140-249-9.
3. Hayley, Barbara (1987). Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals. A Reading and Thinking Nation: Periodicals as the Voice of Nineteenth-century Ireland. Gigginstown, Mullingar: Assoc. of Irish Learned Journals. pp. 29–48.

External links

• "Preface". Dublin Penny Journal. Dublin: J. S. Folds. II (LIII): 1–3. 1833. ISSN 2009-1338. JSTOR 30002858. OCLC 248571359.
• "Preface". Dublin Penny Journal. Dublin: Philip Dixon Hardy. III (CV). 1834. ISSN 2009-1338. JSTOR 30004450. OCLC 248571359.