Bernard McNulty explained

Bernard McNulty (also known as Bernard Nulty) (1842–1892) was an Irish-American literary figure and U.S.-based Irish nationalist, who was a friend and political associate of the Irish-American poet, Irish nationalist and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly.^[1] McNulty wrote for the New York Celtic Monthly and founded the first branch of the Irish nationalist Fenian in New York.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} McNulty wrote the Irish nationalist poem The Patriot Chief. McNulty's 1880 volume of bound verse The Patriot Chief and Other Poems, which was originally published by the Celtic Monthly Publishing Company while McNulty was resident in Newark, N.J., U.S.A. and which O'Donoghue notes "was well praised by some critics", is still in print.^[7] The Patriot Chief and Other Poems is housed in major historical collections on two continents, including at Harvard College,^[8] Brown University,^[9] the National Library of Ireland,^[10] the New York Historical Society Library, the New York Public Library, the Buffalo and Erie Public Library and has been digitized.^[7]

External links

• Web site: History . https://web.archive.org/web/20120726015852/http://cuchulainnsgfc.com/history/. 2012-07-26 . Cuchulainns GAA . "The poet Bernard Nulty, or McNulty as he was called in the USA, wrote a letter to The Anglo Celt in 1888 recalling that he himself has been summoned and fined many times for playing football on Sunday, before he emigrated about 1849.".

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC&dat=18921229&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Boston Evening Transcript. December 29, 1892
2. D.J. (David James) O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers of English verse, Dublin, Hodges Figgis Co., Ltd., London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 338
3. D. Bank & A. Esposito, ed., British Biographical Index, Vol. 3, J-O, London, K.G. Saur, 1990,, p. 1380, Nulty, Bernard, Poet, Fenian (referencing extensive detail on corresponding microfiche 824, 205)
4. Phillip O'Connell, "Bernard Nulty, Fenian Poet", The Irish Book Lover, Vol. 31, pp. 107–08, Feb. 1951
5. Web site: Bernard Nulty . Ricorso.net . 2013-10-02.
6. Edward MacLysaght, Irish families – Their Names, Arms and Origins, 3rd ed., Dublin, A. Figgis, 1972, p. 244
7. Bernard Nulty, The Patriot Chief and Other Poems, Nabu Press, 2012,,
8. Book: The Patriot Chief and Other Poems. 125. Bernard Nulty. 1880.
9. Web site: Brown University Library Search.
10. Book: Holdings: Irish patriotic poems and others . Catalogue.nli.ie . 2013-10-02.