‘A Great Daily Organ’ the Freeman’s Journal, 1763-1924
Dublin City Library & Archive Pearse Street Library 144 Pearse Street, Dublin, DublinThis lecture marks the centenary of the closure of the Freeman’s Journal which appeared for the last time on 19 December 1924. Founded in 1763 as the organ of the so-called ‘patriot’ opposition in the Irish parliament, it was the principal Irish nationalist daily paper in the nineteenth century. For 50 years, from 1841 to...