Newspapers
This category includes newspaper extracts of the past, as well as newspaper archives covering times of war and famine. Will also feature links to present day newspapers which may feature their own archives.
A list of men from Carlow and Laois involved in the Irish National Volunteers in 1914, discovered by a local historian.
The world's largest online database of Irish Newspapers, Search, retrieve and view Ireland's past exactly as it was originally published. With many of Ireland's leading national, regional and out of print titles, this website is a wonderful resource for novice historians and academic institutes.
This database is a compilation of obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from various online sources. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as names, dates, places of birth and death, marriage information, and family relationships. Over 500,000 entries.
Some death notices of Irish immigrants to America, from various Columbia, South Carolina, and other U.S.A. newspapers.
An index of 44,190 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers
General resource page with focus on newspapers, Co. Clare, Co. Limerick, Co. Mayo, and Co. Roscommon.
Because of the destruction of nineteenth century census returns, surviving land and property records from the period have acquired a somewhat unnatural importance. Irish Times discussion.
Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online.
Irish genealogy and history through original issues of 19th to early 20th century newspapers. Features old newspaper articles from or about Ireland and Irish families.
1800s reaction to the Great Famine: quotes, art, experiences, and newspaper reaction, especially the Cork Examiner and Illustrated London News.
New Hibernia Review/ Iris Éireannach Nua: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies presents plainly argued scholarship on all aspects of Irish civilization. It seeks to address a readership of both professional scholars and educated readers as it examines, without political agenda, the cultures of the whole of Ireland.
County Wicklow is a county on the east coast of Ireland between County Dublin to the north and County Wexford to the south. The County of Wicklow is named after it’s principal town Wicklow.
Waterford County Library hosts a Digital Newspaper Archive of 140,000+ local newspaper pages. This ongoing project is not complete for all years. Select a newspaper, then the year and browse the chronological files. Currently the database includes pages from the: Dungarvan Leader 1958-1997, Waterford Chronicle 1804-1872, Waterford Mirror 1803-1869, Waterford Mail 1824-1895, and Munster Express 1894-1920.
A general resource place for all things Waterford genealogy, including censuses, gravestone transcriptions, land records, military records, church records, and newspaper extracts.
General resource page including cemetery records, church records, censuses, military records, and photographs.
General resource page for Co. Tyrone. Includes cemetery records, church records, censuses, headstones, military records, and newspaper extracts.
Includes books, parishes, church records, emigration records, letters, maps, newspaper reports, and photographs - and much, much more. A huge online resource for all things County Tyrone.
Extracts from the Boston Pilot regarding the Great Irish Famine.
"I marched from Limerick on Sunday morning, with 60 dragoons, the Dublin militia, their field pieces, with 2 curricle guns, to open the communication with Dublin, which I judged of the utmost importance to government." Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser -August 11, 1798.
Absentee landlords were common in Ireland and for many landlord's the main interest was income rather than the conditions of their tenants. Many landlords realized that they could get a higher income by turning their properties to pasture than to continue with the old practice of collecting rents from tenant farmers. Evictions was the most common way of getting rid of unwanted tenants.
"On Easter Saturday, in accordance with their sentence, the above named convicts expiated their crime, of which they were found guilty at our last Assizes, by meeting an ignominious death in front of our county gaol."
From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends†column with advertisements from people looking for “lost†friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 39,039 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.
The Belfast Newsletter, an Irish newspaper that began publication in Belfast in 1737 and continues in business until this day, has good claim to being the oldest continually-published English-language newspaper. This is the first such index to be completed for an Irish newspaper. The Belfast Newsletter was published thrice-weekly during the 18th century, in issues of four pages each. During its time, the Newsletter was seldom equalled in the breadth and quality of its coverage of local and international events.
The links contained within will take you to the articles currently on Ireland Old News.com and are organized by county of publication, year and month. These pages are updated frequently so be sure to check back often for your particular interests.
Since we wrote last, we have had a more accurate and general invesigation in reference to the condition of this crop, in the gardens within a few miles round the city; and the intelligent and every way competent gentleman to whom the task has been entrusted, gives it as his opinion that there is no trace whatever of disease-- and that in no one instance has he been able to discover a symptom of the last years' blight. We have equally good accounts from Carrigaline, a great potato-growing country; also, from Whitechurch; from Fermoy, and a number of other localities.
The following details have been transcribed from the "Finn's Linster Journal" newspaper, which can be found on micro film at County Carlow Library, Tullow Street, Carlow, Co Carlow.
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search this vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own home.
While searching for articles about murder, consider the wording that would be printed in newspapers. For example, if a murder investigation was underway, the killer may not have been known. Try searching for the names of victims instead and use related terms, such as homicide, death or suicide.
The world's largest online database of Irish Newspapers, Search, retrieve and view Ireland's past exactly as it was originally published.
The Act of Union Virtual Library is a unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain.
With the publication of the Irish Emigrant on February 6, 2012, The Irish Emigrant have completed 25 years of keeping the Diaspora up to date with news from home and have decided it is time to retire.
Politico provides critique and analysis of Irish politics and current affairs, including archive content to 1968.
The Irish Examiner Newspaper Online, providing daily news, sport and business news for Ireland and beyond.
Newspaper Abstracts your resource for family history research using newspapers. Our site continues to grow with over 1,100 new pages added each month and currently contains 93387 pages of abstracts and extracts from historical newspapers.
The Belfast Newsletter, an Irish newspaper that began publication in Belfast in 1737 and continues in business until this day, has good claim to being the oldest continually-published English-language newspaper.
The Belfast Newsletter, an Irish newspaper that began publication in Belfast in 1737 and continues in business until this day, has good claim to being the oldest continually-published English-language newspaper.
The Clare Champion is a weekly newspaper published in County Clare. It was first published in March 1903, after its predecessor the Clare Man, was forced to close due to a libel case.
The data includes entries that interest me from various Irish newspapers from 1720 to 1865 sorted by family name.
The collection contains recent obituaries from hundreds of newspapers.
A newspaper exists to reflect the society which it serves. The Irish Times is no different. It has changed and reinvented itself over and over again down through the years, evolving, writing the first draft of history about the political, social, economic and cultural landmarks on the island of Ireland.
The data includes entries from various Irish newspapers from 1720 to 1865 sorted by family name.
A unique source for over 15,000 birth, marriage and death announcements appearing in a leading Irish newspaper during the years 1817-23.
This page is an index of 54,622 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers.
These abstracts are taken from The Freeman's Journal, copies of which were researched on microfilm in the National Library of Ireland, on microfilm in the Library of University College Dublin.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
The founders of the Nation newspaper were three young men - two of whom were Catholics and one a Protestant, but all free from the 'slightest taint of bigotry and anxious to unite all creeds and classes for the country's welfare.'
Transcribed from the King's County Chronicle - Offaly, Ireland.
A most serious case of the above nature occurred at Carrigslaney, County Carlow, on the 14th instant, which seems to have originated in some previous quarrel. Two men, named Philip Furlong and John Williams, alias Foster had some altercation at the above place, when Furlong asked Foster to fight him.
The leading object of this Journal will be to afford that attention to the interests of the King’s County, which its importance demands, whether as regards its central position, its agricultural and mercantile resources, or its rank, wealth and intelligence: in short, to give the county the full advantages of an efficient local journal.
We regret to say that a young man accidentally lost his life on the Railway works at Sallins, Co. Kildare on Wednesday evening last.
On Sunday last, a faction fight on an extensive scale took place in Clonbrock, Queen’s Co., which happily did not terminate in any serious result owing to the timely interference of the Newtown constabulary.
At the Thomastown Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, the Chairman (Mr. P. C. Creaghe, R.M.) said, "Before beginning the business of the court I desire to say that my three brother magistrates and I regret that we are the only representatives of a generally large bench of magistrates here, but such as we are we would like to express in the most public way possible our deep sympathy with Major J. H. Connellan and his family, and young Mrs. Connellan, widow of Major Peter Conellan ..."
A tremendous surprise was caused in Longford on Thursday night when Pat Durkin who was reported as having died in the trenches and who was actually prayed for at all Masses here last Sunday, stepped from the evening train when it arrived in Longford.
Longford Leader April 3, 1909 - One of the most disastrous fires ever known in Longford took place on last Monday morning, and resulted in the total destruction of the main building of the Longford workhouse.
Links to Compensation Awards, (London Times - 1883) and Freemans Journal, 21-Jan-1841, Loyal National Repeal Association. Co. Derry.
CUSHMAN, Julia A., wife of Thomas J. Cushman, died Feb. 5 at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, aged 32 years. Funeral from the residence of her sister, Mrs. H. B. Reynolds, 46 Merriman St, and at the Cathedral. Burial at Palmyra. DALEY, Mrs. Bridget, of 200 West Davidson St., Syracuse, died on March 4 at the age of 64. She was the mother of Mrs. Thomas Lynch, Mrs. Patrick Ryan, Mrs. J. Leary, Mrs. J. M. Deagan, Mary, Nora, James and Officer Michael Daley. A sister of Mrs. John Moore, of Ireland and John Conroy of Syracuse. Funeral from St. John's Cathedral, with Burial at St. Agnes Cemetery.
In the matter of the estate of Patrick Boyle, Marianne Boyle, and James N. Macneill, Owners; Nicholas Callan and John Mullen, executors of Mary Callan, deceased, Petitioners.