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Findmypast continue to add new articles to their Irish Newspaper Collection each month to help you find your ancestors in this rich treasure trove of family history information.
This month, there were over 1.3 million new articles added, with the total collection now standing at over 3 million articles.
25 fascinating new titles were added to the collection including publications from all 4 provinces of the country like The Wexford Independent, Roscommon Messenger, Ulsterman and Tralee Chronicle. This brings the full collection to over 40 newspaper titles.
On top of that, additional articles were added to a further 12 titles including The Sligo Champion, Dublin Evening Mail, Waterford Chronicle, Northern Whig and Pue’s Occurences.
The entire newspaper collection now covers 152 years of Irish history, all the way back to 1748.
Here’s a list of Findmypast’s Irish newspaper titles and the years they cover, as of 26 November 2014:
Athlone Sentinel 1834
Belfast Mercantile Register and Weekly Advertiser 1840, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48 49
Belfast Mercury 1851-61
Belfast Morning News 1857-70
Belfast News-Letter 1828-1900
Catholic Telegraph 1856-57, 60, 62
Clonmel Herald 1828-31, 33-36, 40
Cork Examiner 1841-55, 1857-70
Downshire Protestant 1855-56, 58-62
Drogheda Conservative Journal 1837-42, 44-46
Drogheda Journal, or Meath & Louth Advertiser 1829, 30, 34, 35, 40
Drogheda Newsletter 1813
Dublin Builder 1859-66
Dublin Evening Mail 1838, 1845-48
Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent 1842-43, 48, 50
Dublin Medical Press 1846, 48, 1851-59, 1865
Dublin Mercantile Advertiser and Weekly Price Current 1850
Dublin Monitor 1838, 40-44
Dublin Weekly Register 1839-40, 42-46
Enniskillen Chronicle and Erne Packet 1813, 24-26, 28-38, 40, 41
Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture 1845-46, 57-58, 66, 69-70
Freeman’s Journal 1820-21, 30-33, 37-91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99, 1900
Hibernian Journal; or, Chronicle Of Liberty 1773-76, 78, 80-83, 1805-06
Irish Racing Book and Sheet Calendar 1849-59, 61-64, 66
Limerick Evening Post 1828-32
Limerick Reporter 1839-40, 50-52, 54-56, 59-60, 63-70
Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser 1834, 35, 39, 46-49, 51-55, 57-58, 60, 63, 69-70
Northern Whig 1832-36, 39-40, 46-47, 51-56, 58-59, 61, 63-70
Pue’s Occurrences 1748, 56
Roscommon Messenger 1848-70
Sligo Champion 1867-70
Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier 1845-46, 48-50
The Advocate: or, Irish Industrial Journal 1857
The Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser 1841-59, 61, 64-70
The Ulsterman 1856-59
Tipperary Free Press 1854, 57, 65, 68
Tralee Chronicle 1843-49
Ulster General Advertiser, Herald of Business and General Information 1858
Waterford Chronicle 1836, 39, 64-65, 67
Waterford Mail 1824, 34, 39, 41, 58, 60-61, 63-67, 69-70
Wexford Independent 1843-56
Remember to check findmypast.com regularly as new titles and articles are added to the popular collection all the time.
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