Digitized Irish American Newspapers

My recent article about new editions of the Gaelic American newspaper on GenealogyBank got me thinking about the number of Irish American newspapers that have been digitized and are available for research. Below you will find a table of what I could find.

Irish American newspapers fall into two broad categories. First, there are those with titles that clearly indicate that they were/are aimed at Irish immigrants and those of Irish descent (e.g. Irish American, Irish Nation). The second category is Catholic newspapers that had an Irish focus or were read by large numbers of Irish immigrants and their descendants (e.g. The Pilot). It can be argued that there is a third group of newspapers of great use to those with Irish ancestors, but were not aimed at the Irish market. Those are the newspapers that were published in areas where a lot of Irish lived and in which many notices and articles of interest are contained, such as obituaries, death notices, information wanted ads, etc (e.g. Brooklyn Daily Eagle). This third group of titles is significantly larger, so for now, I'll focus on those in the first two categories.

If you can add to the list, please leave a comment at the end of this post and I will update the table.

You can read my previous posts about Irish American newspapers by clicking the 'Newspaper' link in the Archive section of this website.

State	City	Title	Access	Years Available
Kentucky	Louisville	Kentucky Irish American	Newspapers.com ($)	1898-1921
Kentucky	Louisville	Kentucky Irish American	Chronicling America	1898-1921
Kentucky	Louisville	Kentucky Irish American	Fold3.com ($)	1900, 01, 09, 10
Massachusetts	Boston	The Pilot	Boston College[1]	1858-1865
New York	New York City	Gaelic American	GenealogyBank ($)	1906-1908
New York	New York City	Irish American	GenealogyBank ($)	1849-1914
New York	New York City	Irish Citizen	GenealogyBank ($)	1867-1868
New York	New York City	Irish Nation	GenealogyBank ($)	1881-1883
New York	New York City	Irish Voice	GenealogyBank ($)	2006-Current
New York	New York City	Irish World	GenealogyBank ($)	1890-1905
New York	New York City	Exile	GenealogyBank ($)	1817
New York	New York City	The Exile	Readex.com (Inst)[2]	1817
New York	New York City	The Shamrock	Readex.com (Inst)	1814-1817
New York	New York City	The Shamrock, or, Hibernian Chronicle	Readex.com (Inst)	1810-1813
New York	New York City	The Truth Teller	Villanova University	1825-1846
New York	New York City	The Western Star, and, Harp of Erin	Readex.com (Inst)	1812-1813
New York	New York City	The Western Star, and, Harp of Erin	GenealogyBank ($)	1812-1813
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	The Catholic Herald	Villanova University	1835-1848
South Carolina	Charleston	United States Catholic Miscellany	Readex.com (Inst)	1822-1861

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[1] You need to be or know someone who is a student, staff, or faculty member of Boston College to access this collection.

[2] Generally, only institutions such as libraries have subscription access to Readex.