Bernard McNulty (also known as Bernard Nulty) (1842–1892) was an Irish-American literary figure and U.S.-based Irish nationalist, who was a friend and political associate of the Irish-American poet, Irish nationalist and journalist

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. McNulty wrote for the New York ''Celtic Monthly'' and founded the first branch of the Irish nationalist

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in New York. McNulty wrote the Irish nationalist poem ''The Patriot Chief''. McNulty's 1880 volume of bound verse ''The Patriot Chief and Other Poems'', which was originally published by the Celtic Monthly Publishing Company while McNulty was resident in Newark, N.J., U.S.A. and which O'Donoghue notes "was well praised by some critics", is still in print.Bernard Nulty, ''The Patriot Chief and Other Poems'', Nabu Press, 2012, , ''The Patriot Chief and Other Poems'' is housed in major historical collections on two continents, including at

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, the National Library of Ireland, the

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, the Buffalo and Erie Public Library and has been digitized.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McNulty, Bernard 1842 births 1892 deaths Irish emigrants to the United States Irish male poets Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood Writers from Newark, New Jersey 19th-century American poets American male poets 19th-century American male writers 19th-century Irish poets