Papers of Joseph Campbell

Context

Creator(s): Campbell, Joseph, 1879-1944, poet

• Administrative History ↴

  Campbell was born on 15 July 1879 in Belfast, the son of William Henry Campbell (d. 1900), a Catholic nationalist building-contractor and his wife Catherine. He was a brother of the artist John Campbell. He collaborated with Herbert Hughes on Songs of Uladh (1904), written to traditional Irish airs (arranged by Herbert Hughes), and Campbell supplied the words for 'My Lagan Love'. He moved to London in 1906 where he worked as an English teacher for London County Council Schools, and served as Secretary to the Irish Literary Society, London. He assisted Eleanor Hull in the Irish Texts Society. Campbell married Nancy Maude, daughter of Col. Aubrey Maude of the Cameronian Highlanders in 1910 and returned to Ireland. His play Judgement was performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1912. He acted as publicist and recruiter for the Irish Volunteers and engaged in rescue-work during 1916 Easter Rising; he was interned during 1922-23. His marriage failed and he left Ireland to settle in New York, 1925-1939 where he founded the School of Irish Studies in 1925; the Irish Foundation, 1931; and re-established and edited The Irish Review, 1934. Campbell returned to Wicklow in 1939 where he died in June 1944. He was caricatured by James Joyce as 'Mountainy Mutton' in 'Gas from a Burner'.

• Archival History ↴

  Subsequent to Joseph Campbell's death his papers were dispersed. They were acquired at intervals between February 1986 and April 1987 from Mrs Eilís Dillon (through Ms Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) and separately from the poet's sons Flann Campbell and Simon Campbell. They were then amalgamated and catalogued as one collection.

• Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

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