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Last name, Fore Born Died Event Record set Location
Fullam Bernard 1799 1871 1871 Irish Deaths 1864 - 1958 Dublin South, Dublin, Ireland
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Described as Gent. on his daughter Margaret's marriage cert.
Dublin City Directory, 1850:
Fulham Bernard, 4 D'Olier St (proprietor - Irishman Newspaper office)
May not be same person but probably is!
Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics
by T. D. Sullivan DUBLIN
CHAPTER II. Page 8 - 10 Gavan Duffy and the new Nation.
Almost immediately after the disappearance of The Nation in July, 1848, one Bernard Fullam who had been its registered publisher, and whose name had appeared on its imprint every week, bethought him that here was an opportunity of stepping into Mr. Duffy's shoes and capturing his business. He promptly brought out, at what had been the office of The Nation, implicitly with the sanction of his former employer, a paper affecting to be a continuation of the suppressed journal, and exactly similar to it in appearance. His first intention-as set forth in his prospectus-was to call this publication The National, but the device turned out to be a good deal too clever for his own convenience. The authorities at Dublin Castle, thinking they were about to get Mr. Duffy's journal again under a thin disguise, resolved to bar the project, and the Lord Lieutenant issued a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Bernard Fullam. That gentleman immediately went into hiding, and from his place of retirement had assurances conveyed to the Viceroy that he harboured no intention of attacking " law and order," and that if he were allowed to go on with his intended publication it should not appear under the title to which his Excellency had objected. The matter was arranged in that way ; the warrant was not executed, and Mr. Fullam brought out his paper under the name of The Irishman.
This proceeding was unfair to Mr. Duffy. Possibly Mr. Fullam thought that his former employer would soon be speeding across the ocean in the wake of Mr. Mitchel; but without waiting to see what might be the upshot of the impending trial he set up his Irishman, with the obvious purpose of getting hold of the former readers of The Nation. Mr. Duffy, who was much incensed by this proceeding, took what steps he could to let the public know that lie had no connection with Mr. Fullam's paper. On his release from prison he promptly re-issued his own famous journal, which may be said to have been not dead, but like Juliet in the tomb, in a state of suspended animation, Mr. Fullam's Irishman died shortly afterwards.
and Labour in Irish History (Author: James Connolly)
Chapter XV p167
Looking backward to that eventful period (after '48) we can now see that all hopes of a revolutionary movement had perished for that generation, had been strangled in the love embraces of our Girondins; but that fact naturally was not so apparent to the men of the time. Hence it is not to be wondered at that journalistic activity on the part of the revolutionists did not cease with the suppression of The United Irishman, The Irish Tribune, or The Irish Felon. A small fugitive publication entitled the Irish National Guard, published apparently by a body of courageous Dublin workingmen of advanced opinions, also led a chequered existence championing the cause of revolution, and in January, 1849, another paper, The Irishman, was set on foot by Bernard Fullam, who had been business manager of The Nation. Fullam also started a new organisation, the Democratic Association, which is described as ‘an association with aims almost entirely socialistic and revolutionary’. This association also spread amongst the Irish workers in Great Britain, and had the cordial support and endorsement of Fergus O'Connor, who saw in it the realisation of his long-hoped for dream of a common programme uniting the democracies of Ireland and Great Britain. But the era of revolution was past for that generation in both countries, and it was too late for the working-class revolutionists to repair the harm the middle-class doctrinaires had done. The paper died in May, 1850, after an existence of seventeen months.