William Francis Dennehy

William Francis Dennehy (1853โ€“1918), was an Irish journalist, writer and editor. He edited the Irish Catholic newspaper since its founding in 1888 until 1917 shortly before he died in 1918. Dennehy, a close associate William Martin Murphy, helped organise the Irish International Exhibition in 1907 in Dublin. and compiled a record of it. During the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party, Dennehy took the Anti-Parnell view.

He became owner of The Irish Catholic, which upon his death in 1918 became a limited company.[1]

Publications

  • The Story of the Union - as told by its plotters, by Dennehy, W.F., published by J.J. Lawlor, Dublin 1891.
  • Irish International Exhibition 1907, Compiled and Edited by William F. Dennehy, Dublin, 1909

References

  1. ^ Reminding the World of God Catholic Herald, 6 May 1988.