John Burk, Bibliography

(Narrative)

Basic biography

B. Dublin, 1772 (or 1771) and entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1792, expelled 1794. 

 

Became an active member of the United Irish movement (wiki).

 

1797, evading arrest, emigrated to America. Settled in Boston, becoming editor of The Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser. Moved to New York, published The Time Piece (a newspaper) until arrested under the Sedition Law. Moved to Petersburg, Virginia and continued to write. 

He died in Virginia in 1808, losing a duel with a French man named Coquebert.

Bibliography

1) Books by Burk

 World cat (110 works listed)

The Trial of John Burk, of Trinity College, for Heresy and Blasphemy (Dublin: n.p., 1794); ...

Burk, John. 2005. The trial of John Burk late of Trinity College, for heresy and blasphemy, before the board of senior fellows. To which is added, his defence, containing a vindication of his opinions, and a refutation of those inquisitorial charges, in which he shews that his opinions are perfectly consonant to the spirit of the Gospel. By John Burk. [Farmington Hills, Mich]: Thomson Gale.

1795 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83266715  

 He reprinted this pamphlet in daily instalments in his Boston, Mass., Polar Star, 15-26 October 1796.

Burk, John. 1794. Temple of superstition. An epic pome. By John Burk, Citizen. Dublin: Printed for the Author. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/509592157  [Google Books]

History of the late war in Ireland : with an account of the United Irish Association from the first meeting at Belfast, to the landing of the French at Kilala. by John Burk

The history of Virginia, from its first settlement to the present day. 4 volumes. Co-written with Skelton Jones and Louis hue Girardin, Petersburg, Va: Printed for the author, by Dickson & Pescud (1804). (Worldcat) The last volume was published posthumously.

 

He wrote and staged a number of plays.

2) About Burk

Trinity College Dublin and Politics, R. B. McDowell, Hermathena QUATERCENTENARY PAPERS (1992), pp. 115-143,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/23046517 

Wiki: very brief, barely a mention of Ireland.

Some materials to serve for a brief memoir of John Daly Burk, author of a History of Virginia. : With a sketch of the life and character of his only child, Judge John Junius Burk. ed. Charles Campbell, 1868. Munsell, Albany, New York. Open Library  It contains a Reminiscence of Dr Thomas Pleasants Atkinson; the largest part is the work of his granddaughter, Miss Junia A. Burk. 

John Daly Burk: Irish revolutionist and American patriot by Joseph I Shulim.  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 54, No. 6 (1964), https://www.jstor.org/stable/100594 

John Daly Burk, patriot, playwright, historian by Edward A Wyat

World cat (110 references)

3) Mentioned in:

Blasphemy in Irish Law, Paul O'Higgins, The Modern Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Mar., 1960), pp. 151-166, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1091444

Irish Deism: http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/13967/1/irish_deism.pdf

Michael Durey, Irish Deism and Jefferson's Republic: Denis Driscol In Ireland And America, 1793-1810 (pdf) 

A. T. Q. Stewart, A Deeper Silence. The Hidden Origins of the United Irishmen 

Jim Smyth, Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century, The Linen Hall Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 22-24 (3 pages) (Jstore)

 

Wendell Bird, Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Harvard University Press (2020) (Jstore)