You read that correctly. Eight. After six months with not a hint of a new Irish paper joining the BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk, eight come along at once.
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The delivery lifts this year's total debut titles from across the island to 32, and pushes the current total number of Irish papers in the British Library's online newspaper collection to 224 (63 Northern Ireland / 161 Republic of Ireland).
The new titles are listed below. The dates shown reflect the span of the holding when the digitisation of all editions is completed.
- Cork Weekly News 1883–1923
- Dublin Weekly News 1860-1888
- Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner 1891–1965
- Kerry People 1902-1922
- Ulster Echo 1874–1908
- Western People 1889–1912
- Lurgan Times 1879–81
- County Tipperary Independent and Tipperary Free Press 1882–1907
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