Last week, there was an interesting development for Irish
genealogy in the U.S – Newspapers.com
(owned by Ancestry.com) has partnered with Ireland-based Irish Newspaper
Archives (Irishnewsarchive.com) to launch a US version of this website called Irish Newspapers (Irishnewspapers.com). Confused with all
that? Well, this all boils down to there now being a U.S. based website where
you can do research in local and national newspapers from Ireland and pay in
dollars.
Irish Newspaper Archives has been
in existence for a number of years and currently has 46 digitized local and
national newspapers. Not all of these papers are available on the US site; 37
titles are by my count. Those that have made the migration to the US site are
only available up to 1980, with the earliest year of coverage starting in 1738.
The website has the same format
and search functionality as the existing Ancestry newspaper site, Newspapers.com.
Currently, Irishnewspapers.com lacks some of the bells and whistles of the
parent site but these will probably be added in due course. The search functionality
allows for keywords, places and dates. There is a useful ‘Papers’ section where
you can get to grips with what papers are available and what time period they
cover.
The browse format is very user
friendly and you can quickly get to a specific county, title, or date of interest
using this feature. There is one very significant error in the way the papers
have been allocated in the browse function. All of the newspapers that have
national coverage have been placed in the ‘County – Dublin’ section. This is
particularly unfortunate as, for example, the Irish Independent and Irish
Press are available to search for many years from the 20th
century and families from all over Ireland placed death notices in these
papers.
I have been surprised over the
last couple of years by the lack of knowledge about the existence of Irish
Newspaper Archives among the Irish genealogy community in the U.S. It’s rarely
mentioned in the same breath as the well-known Rootsireland.ie and National Archives
of Ireland website (genealogy.nationalarchives.ie). I don’t believe that’s the
fault of folks on this site of the Atlantic as it’s not heavily advertised or
promoted on the ‘starter’ websites, such as the Irish government’s Irishgenealogy.ie.
It will be interesting to see if this will
change now that commercial behemoth Ancestry.com is involved. If you plan on
doing research on the new site there are two subscription pricing options,
$19.99 per month and $99.99 for one year.
Below, you will find a table of
all the newspapers that are available on both Irishnewspapers.com (US) and
Irishnewsarchive.com (Ireland). Titles in bold are only available on the Ireland-based website and you’ll have to subscribe to that site if you want access to them.
Geographical
Coverage
|
Title
|
Years
Digitized
(Format
is day/month/year)
|
Website
Availability
|
Notes: •They are gaps in the years of coverage that
have been digitized
•Table last updated 24 March
2015
•Some papers listed under
county Mayo such as Connaught Telegraph
and
Western People also cover counties Galway, Roscommon, Sligo, and
Leitrim
|
|||
National
|
03/01/1763 - 19/12/1924
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
|
National
|
30/08/1841 - 31/12/1949
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
National
|
16/03/1957 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
National
|
02/01/1905 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
National
|
05/09/1931 - 25/05/1995
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-1995)
|
|
National
|
07/01/1906 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Northern
Ireland
|
09/01/1738 - 30/08/1890
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
|
Cavan
|
06/02/1846 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Cork
|
02/01/1882 - 08/07/1922
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
|
Cork
|
13/02/1892 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Donegal
|
14/03/1903 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Dublin
|
The Nation
|
15/10/1842 - 05/06/1897
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
Fermanagh
|
09/02/2011 - Current
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
Galway
|
02/08/1927 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Galway
|
22/05/1909 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Galway
|
07/09/1984 - Current
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
Galway
|
13/05/1837 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Kerry
|
20/08/1904 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Kerry
|
Kerry Independent
|
28/10/1880 - 10/01/1884
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
Kerry
|
Kerry Star
|
15/05/1861 - 27/03/1863
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
Kerry
|
Killarney Echo
& South Kerry Chronicle
|
26/08/1899 - 14/08/1920
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
Kildare
|
Kildare Observer
|
23/10/1880 - 04/05/1935
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
Kilkenny
|
Finn’s Leinster Journal
|
01/04/1792 - 31/12/1828
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
Kilkenny
|
01/01/1921 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Leitrim
|
02/01/1904 -Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Limerick
|
02/01/1905 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Longford
|
14/08/1897 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Louth
|
Dundalk Democrat
|
20/10/1849 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
Mayo
|
03/02/1866 - 10/09/1903
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
|
Mayo
|
06/08/1927 - 28/04/1962
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
|
Mayo
|
22/09/1830 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Mayo
|
Mayo
Examiner
|
06/07/1868 - 30/12/1876
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
Mayo
|
Mayo
News
|
07/01/1893 – 29/12/2004
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
Mayo
|
03/06/1977 - 11/03/1983
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-1983)
|
|
Mayo
|
04/05/1889 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Meath
|
01/05/1897 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Montana
|
Butte Independent
|
22/01/1910 - 27/12/1930
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
Offaly
|
Leinster Express
|
24/09/1831 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
Tipperary
|
21/07/1838 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Tipperary
|
Nenagh News
|
05/01/1895 - 28/12/1924
|
Irishnewspapers.com
|
Tyrone
|
14/01/2011 - Current
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
Tyrone
|
10/02/2011 - Current
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
Tyrone
|
07/02/2011 - Current
|
Irishnewsarchive.com only
|
|
Tyrone
|
15/08/1901 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Waterford
|
04/01/1908 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
|
Westmeath
|
28/09/1882 - Current
|
Irishnewspapers.com (see Irishnewsarchive.com for 1980-Present)
|
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