The Sunday papers

A history of Ireland's weekly press

Joe Breen, Mark O'Brien

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846827617
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

For over a century, the Irish Sunday newspaper has influenced social mores and political developments in Ireland. In this lively and engaging book, historians and journalists celebrate the character, role, culture and history of the Irish Sunday newspaper, with a look at the most important and influential titles of the twentieth century, including the Sunday Independent, Sunday Freeman Sunday Press, Sunday Review, Sunday World, Sunday Journal, Sunday Tribune and Sunday Business Post. Each chapter gives an overview of a particular title, examining the Ireland in which it first appeared, its origins, its proprietors, editors, journalists and contributors, its major stories and controversies, its business dynamic, circulation and readership, and its overall contribution to journalism, society and culture in terms of its coverage of politics, sports and other areas of public interest.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• 1 The Irish Sunday newspaper: its role, character and history
• 2 ‘The Sham Squire’s youngest child’: the Sunday Freeman, 1913–16
• 3 ‘A weekly newspaper unequalled in the annals of Irish journalism’: the Sunday Independent, 1905–84
• 4 The Sunday Press: de Valera’s ‘Irish-Ireland’ weekly
• 5 The people’s paper: the Sunday Review
• 6 ‘Are you getting it?’ – the Sunday World
• 7 The short and troubled life of the Sunday Journal
• 8 The Tribune’s turbulent times
• 9 ‘A lightning rod for the anger and frustration that is out there’:the Sunday Independent, 1984–2012
• 10 The business start-up: the Sunday Business Post, 1989–2001
• 11 ‘The English just don’t get it’: the Sunday Times in Ireland
• Appendix 1 Circulations of Sunday newspapers
• Appendix 2 E ditors of Sunday newspapers
• Index