James Duffy (Irish publisher)
- James Duffy (Irish publisher)
James Duffy (1809 in Monaghan – July 4, 1871) was a prominent 19th century Irish author and publisher.
Career
Duffy was educated at a hedge school and began his business as a bookseller through purchasing Protestant bibles given to Catholics. He then traveled to Liverpool where he traded them for more valuable books. In 1830 he founded his own company, "James Duffy and Sons," and issued "Boney’s Oraculum", or "Napoleon’s Book of Fate", which experienced huge sales. "Boney’s Oraculum" would later be the object of an allusion in a speech of Capt. Boyle in Sean O'Casey's 1924 play "Juno and the Paycock". [ [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/index.htm] Duffy at Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Nov. 16, 2007.]
Duffy's business would become one of the major publishers of Irish nationalist books, bibles, magazines, Missals and religious texts throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. He was described as having "invented a new kind of cosy family Catholicism." [ [http://library.wit.ie/Journals/HistoricalIrishJournals/ Historical Irish Journals.] ]
"Among the magazines he published were:"
* Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine (1847)
* Catholic Guardian
* Christian Family Library
* Duffy's Hibernian Magazine
* Illustrated Dublin Journal
* Duffy's Fireside Magazine: A Monthly Miscellany (November 1850–October 1852) (price: 4d)
* Duffy's Hibernian Sixpence Magazine (ceased publication in 1864)
Duffy's magazines are seen as a forerunner for "Ireland's Own" today.
"Among books he published were:"
* an 1861 edition of the Douay Bible, a copy of which is owned by the Central Catholic Library in Dublin
* John O'Hart, "Irish landed gentry: when Cromwell came to Ireland" (Dublin: James Duffy & Sons, 1887)
* John O’Hanlon, "Lives of the Irish Saints, Vol 6" (James Duffy and Sons, 1891)
* Gerald Griffin "The Invasion" (Dublin, James Duffy & Sons)
The publishing house was based at Number 7, Wellington Quay, Dublin and later at 14 & 15 Wellington Quay.
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