United Irishman
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The United Irishman title has been a very popular newspaper title in Ireland
and a number of newspapers have been published under the title.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and a number of newspapers have been published under the title.
- The United Irishman was a weekly Irish nationalistIrish nationalismIrish nationalism manifests itself in political and social movements and in sentiment inspired by a love for Irish culture, language and history, and as a sense of pride in Ireland and in the Irish people...
newspaperNewspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
founded by John MitchelJohn MitchelJohn Mitchel was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation...
in February 1848, after he left The NationThe Nation (Irish newspaper)The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in the 19th century. The Nation was printed first at 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, on 15 October 1842, until 6 January 1844...
newspaper, where he had been editor. The paper suppressed under the Treason Felony Act (1848)Treason Felony Act 1848The Treason Felony Act 1848 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act is still in force. It is a law which protects HM the Queen and the Crown....
and Mitchel arrested and convicted on the 26th of May 1848 and sent to Van Diemen’s Land.
- The United Irishman was an Irish nationalist newspaper co-founded by Arthur GriffithArthur GriffithArthur Griffith was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin. He served as President of Dáil Éireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.-Early life:...
and William RooneyWilliam RooneyWilliam Rooney was an Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Gaelic revivalist. Along with Arthur Griffith and Denis Devereux he founded the Celtic Literary Society, and with Griffith founded the first Cumann na nGaedheal....
. It was first published on the 4th of march 1899 and ran from 1899 to 1906. Contributors included Oliver St. John GogartyOliver St. John GogartyOliver Joseph St John Gogarty was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses....
, Padraig Pearse, Maud GonneMaud GonneMaud Gonne MacBride was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats. Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars...
and Roger CasementRoger CasementRoger David Casement —Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours—was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist....
. The writer James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
is quoted as saying about the United Irishman was the only newspaper of pretensions in Ireland. In 1906 the United Irishman collapsed under a libel suit and was refounded as Sinn FéinSinn Féin (newspaper)Sinn Féin was a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper edited by the Dublin typesetter, journalist and political thinker Arthur Griffith. It was published by the Sinn Féin Printing & Publishing Company Ltd. between 1906 and 1914, and replaced an earlier newspaper called the United Irishman which was...
, which ran until 1914 when it was suppressed by the British government.
- The United Irishman/An tÉireannach Aontaithe, first published in May 1948, was the official monthly organ of Sinn FéinSinn FéinSinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
sold by its members. After the split in the Irish Republican MovementRepublican Movement (Ireland)The Republican Movement is a collective term used to describe the Irish Republican Army and other political, social and paramilitary organisations associated with it.The term is not restricted to any one movement and can include:...
, the title continued as the organ of Official Sinn Féin, being published from the offices in 30 Gardner Place in Dublin, with the Provisional wing publishing An PhoblachtAn PhoblachtAn Phoblacht is the official newspaper of Sinn Féin in Ireland. It is published once a month, and according to its website sells an average of up to 15,000 copies every month and was the first Irish paper to provide an edition online and currently having in excess of 100,000 website hits per...
. The first editor was Seán G. O'Kelly based in an office in 38 South King Street in Dublin. The historian Éamonn MacThomáisÉamonn MacThomáisÉamonn MacThomáis was an author, broadcaster, historian, Irish Republican, advocate of the Irish Language and lecturer. He presented his own series on Dublin on RTÉ during the 70s and was well known for guided tours and lectures of his beloved Dublin...
edited the paper for a short while prior to the 1970 split in Sinn Féin. Other editors of the paper included Seán CroninSeán CroninSeán Cronin was a journalist and former Irish Army officer and twice Irish Republican Army chief of staff.Cronin was born in Dublin in 1920 but spent his childhood years in Ballinskelligs, in the County Kerry Gaeltacht....
, Seán Ó BrádaighSeán Ó BrádaighSeán Ó Brádaigh , is an Irish republican activist.Like his brother, Ruairí, Seán joined Sinn Féin at an early age....
(1958-1960), Ruairí Ó BrádaighRuairí Ó BrádaighRuairí Ó Brádaigh is an Irish republican. He is a former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army , former president of Sinn Féin and former president of Republican Sinn Féin.-Early life:...
, Eoin Ó Murchú, Seamus Ó Tuathail, Denis Foley and Tony Meade (1967). Other contributors to the paper included Eamon McCann, Roy JohnstonRoy JohnstonRoy Johnston is an Irish physicist. He was a Marxist who as a member of the IRA in the 1960s argued for a National Liberation Strategy to unite the Catholic and Protestant working classes...
, Eamon Smullen, Eoghan HarrisEoghan HarrisEoghan Harris is an Irish journalist, fiction writer, director, columnist and politician. He currently writes for the Sunday Independent. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 2007–11, having been nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern....
and Sean GarlandSeán GarlandSeán Garland is a former President of the Workers' Party in Ireland.-Early Life:Born at Belvedere Place, off Mountjoy Square in Dublin, Garland joined the Irish Republican Army in 1953. In 1954, he briefly joined the British Army as an IRA agent and collected intelligence on Gough Barracks in...
. The United Irishman was replaced by Sinn Fein the Workers Party in 1980 by The Irish PeopleThe Irish PeopleThe Irish People has been a title of a number of mostly political newspapers in Ireland and America.**The Irish People was an Irish nationalist newspaper of the Fenian movement founded in 1863 by James Stephens. Nationalists Charles Kickham, Thomas Clarke Luby and John O’Leary were editors of this...
and the Workers' Weekly.
- The United Irishman, published in north Belfast 2000 and produced by those involved in the Official Republican Movement which was a breakaway from The Workers PartyWorkers' Party of IrelandThe Workers' Party is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party, adopting its current name in 1982....
in the late 1990s. It included articles by Colm Breathnach and Eamon McCann.
Editors
- 1948: Seamus G. O'Kelly
- Seán CroninSeán CroninSeán Cronin was a journalist and former Irish Army officer and twice Irish Republican Army chief of staff.Cronin was born in Dublin in 1920 but spent his childhood years in Ballinskelligs, in the County Kerry Gaeltacht....
- 1958: Seán Ó BrádaighSeán Ó BrádaighSeán Ó Brádaigh , is an Irish republican activist.Like his brother, Ruairí, Seán joined Sinn Féin at an early age....
- 1960: Ruairí Ó BrádaighRuairí Ó BrádaighRuairí Ó Brádaigh is an Irish republican. He is a former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army , former president of Sinn Féin and former president of Republican Sinn Féin.-Early life:...
- 1962: Denis Foley
- 1965: Tony Meade
- 1967: Seamus Ó Tuathail
- 1971: Eoin Ó Murchú
- Des O'HaganDes O'HaganDes O'Hagan is a prominent member of the Workers' Party of Ireland and was a founding member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.O'Hagan was born in Belfast in 1934 and became active in republican revolutionary politics in the city from an early age...