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Dublin newspapers c1900

Jorn Barger March 2001

The Irish Times, with a circulation of about 45,000, vied with the pro-home-rule Freeman's Journal and Evening Telegraph, with circulations of about 40,000 and 26,000, respectively. Conservative papers such as the Daily Express [edited by Longworth, bought reviews from JAJ in 1903] and Evening Herald had small but respectable circulations, as had the broadly non-partisan Daily Independent and Evening Mail.) [cite]

1866: the 'Shamrock' illustrated weekly founded

1873: TA Finlay and Fr Matthew Russell found 'Irish Monthly' [lfae251]

1875: Wm O'Brien leaves Freeman's Journal

1881: 13Aug: United Ireland (militant Parnellite weekly newspaper) founded (editor William O'Brien)

1887: Finlay founds 'Lyceum' (lasts to 1894) [lfae251]

1889: JF Taylor in Freeman's Journal reviews WBY's 'Oisin': "a jumble of confused ideas in a maze of verbiage" [rff86]

1889 papers: Irish Monthly; Sligo Independent

1890: O'Brien flees Ireland

1890: 'The Strand' founded [history]

1894: Finlay founds 'New Ireland Review' (lasts to 1911) [lfae251]

1895: Irish Homestead founded by the IAOS [date]

"...a little weekly paper, the Irish Homestead, acts as the organ of the movement, promotes the exchange of ideas between societies scattered throughout the country, furnishes useful information upon all matters connected with their business operations, and keeps constantly before the associated farmers the economic principles which must be observed, and, above all, the spirit in which the work must be approached, if the movement is to fulfil its mission... Those wishing to keep au courant with the further development of the movement would do well to take in the Irish Homestead, post free 6s. 6d. per annum." [cite]

1895?-1898: Standish James O'Grady edits Daily express [lfae262]

Jul 1898 to Dec 1899: TP Gill editor of Daily Express [lfae251]

1898: 13Aug: Connolly's Workers' Republic (first Irish socialist newspaper) appears

1899: 04Mar: Arthur Griffith founds United Irishman [more]

1899: 18Mar: The Gaelic League's An Claidheamh Soluis appears, edited by Eoin MacNeill

1900: SJ O'Grady founds 'All-Ireland Review' in Kilkenny. moved to Dublin, lasted till 1906) [lfae262]

1900: DP Moran founds the Leader

1903: Patrick Pearse takes over the editorship of An Claidheamh Soluis


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