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Welcome to The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals:1800-1900, a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of
5,800 publications, 7,000 people, 800 issuing bodies, 215 publishing towns, 1250 title pages. Editor John S. North.
Soli Deo Gloria

 
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Interesting Record: Irishman, The;

Described as "a violent weekly journal" by A.A. Campbell. 

Referred to as "our only Catholic journal in Ulster." 

In his essay on "Dublin Newspapers," Stephen J. Brown writes that the first proprietor of the journal, Denis Holland, departed for America in 1866, when the paper was taken over by Richard Pigott. Brown calls Pigott "of unhappy memory", and it is claimed that Pigott embezzled money from the paper and covered his tracks by not keeping written records.


The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals: 1800 - 1900 Series Three.
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