Francis McCullagh

Francis McCullagh (30 April 1874–25 November 1956) was an Irish journalist, war correspondent,[1] and author.

Career overview

McCullagh was born in Bridge Street, Omagh, County Tyrone, in 1874, the son of James McCullagh, a publican originally from the Gortin area, and Bridget McCullagh.[2][3]

He began his journalism career as a staff reporter at the Glasgow Observer (later Scottish Catholic Observer), and would continue writing for the newspaper through 1906-1937.[4] From 1898, he was a correspondent for the New York Herald. In 1903, he was living in Japan, working for the English-language newspaper The Japan Times. Observing the growing tension between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire, he studied the Russian language. In 1904, he moved to Port Arthur, the major Russian military base in Manchuria, obtaining a post as a correspondent for the Novi KraΓ― (New Land) newspaper of Port Arthur. At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, he became a non-military observer embedded within the Imperial Russian Army.[5] In March 1905, he was evacuated as a prisoner of war, traveling from Dalny to Ujina on the Nippon Yusen liner Awa Maru.[6] His experiences were published in 1906 as With the Cossacks: Being the Story of an Irishman Who Rode With the Cossacks Throughout the Russo-Japanese War.

He subsequently returned to Russia to cover the 1918-1922 Siberian Intervention during the Russian Civil War. At one point, the Bolshevik Red Army captured him.

In 1937, he covered the Spanish Civil War.[7]

McCullagh died in White Plains, New York in 1956.

Notes

  1. "Has the War Correspondent Seen His Last Fight?," Review of Reviews and World's Work, Vol. XLVII, 1913.
  2. "General Registrar's Office" (PDF). IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  3. "Irish Newspaper Archive". Fermanagh Herald. 8 December 1956. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. Coffey, Jim (19 April 1985). "Writer of the War" (4097). Scottish Catholic Observer.
  5. McCullagh, Francis. (1906). With the Cossacks, pp. 3-4., p. 3, at Google Books
  6. McCullagh, 1906: pp. 372-386.
  7. "Journalists in Franco's Spain," Catholic Herald, 22 October 1937.

Works

Selected articles

Further reading

  • Horgan, John (2009). "Journalism, Catholicism and Anti-Communism in an Era of Revolution: Francis McCullagh, War Correspondent, 1874-1956," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 390, pp. 169–184.
  • McNamara, Patrick J. (2006). "Russia, Rome, and Recognition: American Catholics and Anticommunism in the 1920s," U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 71–88.
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