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Where to find old Evening Press articles

  • 15-06-2009 12:33pm
    #1
    gazzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,050 ✭✭✭


    Would anybody know if there is a website I could access in order to find some articles from the Evening Press? Im looking for one from 1961 and one from 1985. I found a website where I can find articles from the Irish Independant and you pay 10 euro for 24 hours access but I cant find anything for the Evening Press?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    There was a library on the quays in Dublin that used to have all the papers from years back. I was there about 8 years ago so can't remember where exactly it was (past City Quay from memory) but your local library should be able to help. you needed a letter to get access from what i heard


  • #3
    kpbdublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭kpbdublin


    Have you tried the National Library. I think they keep all Irish papers. They certainly used to.


  • #4
    BarneyMagee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭BarneyMagee


    It's highly unlikely they will be on a website somewhere. You will probably have to go to the National Library.


  • #5
    rasputize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭rasputize


    You should be able to get them on Lexis-Nexis, that is, if you have a subscription. Otherwise, the National Library will more than likely have them


  • #6
    kpbdublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭kpbdublin


    They're not on lexis nexis. I checked. So, it's the Nat Library.


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  • #7
    dumac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭dumac


    Yeah, the National Library is your best bet. The Press newspapers folded at almost exactly the same time as the interweb was beginning to take off in Ireland, so they never had a website or digital edition, and with the newspapers all dead I can't imagine anyone else would digitise their archives.


  • #8
    Lilly10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Lilly10


    My future father-in-law has the very first issues of the Evening Press (Friday, June 3rd, 1932 and Saturday, September 5th, 1931).
    The newspaper was initially issued on 3rd June 1932 and then it stopped and it was reissued on 5th September 1931.
    He would be interested in finding out how much they are worth. Can anyone help us?


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Apart from the newspaper being the same, your query isn't remotely connected to the issue raised in this thread plus the thread is over two years old.

    There is a thread called Collectibles and Antiques here where you could ask but I can't imagine why anyone would pay money for an old copy of a defunct newspaper. The National Library and Trinity College would have copies so it's not likely that the copies you have are of any value to historians.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=394


  • #10
    mari2222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 568 ✭✭✭mari2222


    The National Library has internet access to some old papers - and Dublin city council Library in Pearse Street has internet access ditto. Both FREE.


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