Irish Rosary

The magazine's ethos and content were against Freemasonry and strongly anti-communist; the paper took the nationalist, pro-Franco side in the Spanish Civil War.

Among the other contributors both lay and clerical were Prof. William Stockley, Prof. Mary Ryan, Stephen Browne SJ, Benedict O'Sullivan OP,[3] R. F. O'Connor, Shane Leslie, Jane Martyn, S. M. Lyne, Sister Gertrude, and novelist and poet sisters, Katharine Tynan Hickson, and Nora Tynan O'Mahony.

The Gaelic revivalist poet Elizabeth (Lizzie) Twigg, who is mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses, made many contributions to the magazine.

[4] The republican and socialist Peadar O'Donnell lost a libel case he took against the Irish Rosary, following articles in the magazine that claimed he was a Soviet agent.

[5] The historian Dermot Keogh claims that, like other Catholic publications at the time, The Irish Rosary published many antisemitic articles.