Francis McCullagh

Francis McCullagh (1874 - 26 November 1956) was a British journalist, war correspondent,[1] and author.

Career overview

McCullagh was born in Dungannon,Northern Ireland, in 1874. 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 Kraï (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.[2] In March 1905, he was evacuated as a prisoner of war, traveling from Dalny to Ujina on the Nippon Yusen liner Awa Maru.[3] 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.[4]

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. McCullagh, Francis. (1906). With the Cossacks, pp. 3-4., p. 3, at Google Books
  3. McCullagh, 1906: pp. 372-386.
  4. "Journalists in Franco's Spain," Catholic Herald, 22 October 1937.

Works

Selected articles

  • "'Freedom' in Portugal," The Living Age, Vol. CCLXVIII, 1911.
  • "The Portuguese Separation Law," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIX, July/October 1911.
  • "How the Carbonaria Saved the Portuguese Republic", The Contemporary Review, No. 561, September 1912.
  • "The Belgian Strike," The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIII, July/October 1913.
  • "Portugal: The Nightmare Republic," The Nineteenth Century and After, January 1914.
  • "The Portuguese Republic and the Press," The Dublin Review, Vol. CLIV, January/April, 1914.
  • "The Baltic States from an Irish Point of View. I: The Baltic Barons," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 11, No. 41, Mar., 1922.
  • "The United States and Mexico," The Living Age, 15 November 1927.
  • "Who Is Calles?," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 17, No. 65, Mar., 1928.
  • "Notes on Linguistic Studies in Paris," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 18, No. 69, Mar., 1929.
  • "Mexico and the Press," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 18, No. 70, Jun., 1929.
  • "A Pioneer of Newspaper Combines," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 19, No. 73, Mar., 1930.
  • "Peter the Great and Lenin," Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 19, No. 76, Dec., 1930.
  • "The General Who Shall Take Madrid," Catholic Herald, 5 March 1937.
  • "America is Becoming More and More Anti-Democratic," Catholic Herald, 6 December 1940.

Further reading

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