Monday 20 June 2022

Two more Irish titles join the online British Newspaper Archive

Two more historical newspaper titles have joined the still-growing BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. Details of the publications and the holding now available for each of them are below.

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Carlow Nationalist
For the first two years of its life, the paper was known as The Carlow Nationalist and Leinster Times. Since then its title is simply The Nationalist and it continues to be published weekly in Carlow Town. The newly uploaded holding consists of just under 15,000 pages dating fromm 1883 to 1916.

Cork Weekly Examiner
This paper was launched in 1896 by the publishers of the six-times-a-week The Cork Examiner. For a short while it was also known as The Weekly Herald. The online holding offers 9,364 pages published from 1896–1912.