Juverna or Iuverna is a Latin name for Ireland, a less common variant of Hibernia; both derive from the earlier Iverna.[1] Juverna occurs in the works of Juvenal and Pomponius Mela, although James Watson in 1883 argued these refer to Scotland rather than Ireland.[2]
The name has been used as a poetic synonym for Ireland by Irish nationalists. In 1805 the Irish High Court judge Robert Johnson published letters in William Cobbett's Political Register under the pen-name "Juverna", which criticised the Dublin Castle administration and sympathised with Robert Emmet;[3] Johnson and Cobbett were convicted of seditious libel, and Johnson was forced to resign from the Bench in disgrace.[4] In Benjamin Ward Richardson's 1888 novel The Son of a Star: A Romance of the Second Century, includes the character "gentle Erine, the Maiden of Love" from "Juverna, the island of eternal youth" to the west of Roman Britain.[5] Juverna was a monthly magazine produced by the Christian Brothers in 1902–1903, and its fundraising Juverna Bazaar of May 1903 had a Gaelic revival theme.[6][7] Juverna gaelic football club won the 1911 Cork Junior Championship. Juverna Press, established by Andrew O'Shaughnessy in 1927, published mainly religious works,[8] including Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus for the 1932 Eucharistic Congress.[9]
Ships
editSeveral ships were named Juverna, including:[10]
- The schooner Juverna, registered in Portaferry in 1804, which was a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people.[11]
- A barque launched in Waterford in 1838[12]
- A brigantine built 1843 in Red Head, New Brunswick
- A paddle steamer launched in 1847 by the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company for the Cork–Bristol route,[13] on which Michael Doheny fled after the failure of the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.[14] It was sold in 1864 for the Union blockade and presumed lost.[15]
- A brig built 1850 in Pictou, Nova Scotia for Robert Hatton (Gorey 1810 – Liverpool 1852)[16]
- A barque based in Sydney from 1859.[17]
- A cargo ship lost in the Irish Sea in 1904.[18]
References
edit- ^ "Definition of Iverna, Juverna, Ierna". Numen, the Latin Lexicon. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Watson, James (1883). Notes on the Early History of Scotland. Vol. I. J. Watson. p. 49.
- ^ Juverna (1803). Cobbett, William (ed.). "Affairs of Ireland". Cobbett's Weekly Political Register. IV. London. Letter I: no. 16 (22 Oct) cc545–553 Letter II: no. 17 (29 Oct) cc586–587 Letter III: no. 18 (5 Nov) cc609–616
- ^ Uglow, Jenny (2014). "Always capable of doing mischief". In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571312627. Retrieved 17 November 2019.; Jenkins, Thomas; Farquharson, George (1806). Report of the Trial at Bar of the Hon. Mr. Justice Johnson, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, for a Libel: In the Court of King's-Bench, on Saturday the 23d Day of November, 1805. London: Butterworth. pp. 80, 81, 112. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1888). The son of a star : a romance of the second century. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green. pp. 174-175. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Coldrey, Barry M. (1988). Faith and fatherland: the Christian Brothers and the development of Irish nationalism, 1838-1921. Gill and Macmillan. pp. 201, 243. ISBN 9780717114788.
- ^ Frehan, Pádraic (2012). Education and Celtic Myth: National Self-Image and Schoolbooks in 20th Century Ireland. Rodopi. p. 83. ISBN 9789401208659. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Juverna Press (Dublin)". worldcat. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Hutton, Clare; Walsh, Patrick (2011). The Oxford History of the Irish Book. Vol. V: The Irish Book in English, 1891–2000. OUP Oxford. p. 86. ISBN 9780199249114. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Juverna ship citations in the ship database". www.shipindex.org. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Register of Shipping. Society of Merchants, Ship-owners and Underwriters. 1812. No.1223. Retrieved 18 November 2019.; Fenton, James (17 March 2007). "James Fenton discovers human history in the logbooks of empire". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Wyman and sons. 1840. No.660. Retrieved 18 November 2019.; Irish, Bill (2001). Shipbuilding in Waterford, 1820-1882: A Historical, Technical and Pictorial Study. Wordwell. p. 55. ISBN 9781869857509.
- ^ "Varieties; New Steam-ship, Juverna". The Patent Journal, and Inventors' Magazine (50). Barlow and Le Capelain: 854. 8 May 1847. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Doheny, Michael (1867). "Chapter IX". The Felon's track : a narrative of '48 embracing the leading events in the Irish struggle from the year 1843 to the close of 1848. New York: Farrell & Son. pp. 150-151. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ Parsons, R. M. (March 1981). "Bristol Steam's 144 Years: Part Two". Sea Breezes: The Ship Lovers' Digest. 55 (423). C. Birchell: 197. ISSN 0036-9977.
- ^ Crerar, David A. "The Hattons of Wexford". sites.rootsweb.com.
- ^ "Advertising". Empire. Sydney. 5 August 1859. p. 1. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
For Sale or Charter — the splendid First-class Clipper Barque JUVERNA, 312 tons reglster.
- ^ "A Mysterious Loss". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 November 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 18 November 2019.