Juverna

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

Several 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

1. "Definition of Iverna, Juverna, Ierna". Numen, the Latin Lexicon. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
2. Watson, James (1883). Notes on the Early History of Scotland. Vol. I. J. Watson. p. 49.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. "Juverna Press (Dublin)". worldcat. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
9. 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.
10. "Juverna ship citations in the ship database". www.shipindex.org. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. "Varieties; New Steam-ship, Juverna". The Patent Journal, and Inventors' Magazine (50). Barlow and Le Capelain: 854. 8 May 1847. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Crerar, David A. "The Hattons of Wexford". sites.rootsweb.com.
17. "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.
18. "A Mysterious Loss". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 November 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 18 November 2019.