Introduction to The Dublin Magazine

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Susan Schreibman

Original Source: Introduction to The Dublin Magazine. Original text created for The Thomas MacGreevy Archive by Susan Schreibman © 1999.

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Introduction to The Dublin Magazine

The Dublin Magazine was one independent Ireland's literary success stories. Founded in 1923 by Seumas O'Sullivan (pseudonym for James Sullivan Starkey), he edited the journal though 1958, the year of his death. There is no correspondence regarding MacGreevy's dealings with O'Sullivan, and it is unclear why MacGreevy never had anything besides ' The Daemon of French Painting' published in the journal.

It is clear from MacGreevy's earliest criticism, he adopted the position that Irish art could only be properly understood when placed against the backdrop of a wider European heritage. 'The Daemon of French Painting', published in August 1924, and ' Picasso, Mamie Jellett and Dublin Criticism' ( The Klaxon, December 1923), served to establish MacGreevy's reputation as one of the new and major voices in Irish art criticism.