The library of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society holds a collection of (mostly) local historical newspapers. Many of the original newspapers are fragile and users are asked to handle them with care at all times: please do not mark them or rest on them. Photocopying is not permitted, but they may be photographed. Microfilm copies of many are available at Kilkenny County Library Local Studies Dept as well as at KAS (see below). Most are also available at the National Library in Dublin, also on microfilm.
Printed newspapers held at the Kilkenny Archaeological Society
FINN’S LEINSTER JOURNAL (continued as Leinster Journal and Kilkenny Journal)
1786-1790, 1792-93, 1795-98, 1801-1812, 1830 (Mar-Dec), 1831-82, 1883 (Jan-Mar), 1884 (Mar-Dec), 1885-86, 1887 (Jan-Mar), 1888 (Mar-Dec), 1889-93, 1894 (Jan-Mar), 1895 (Mar-Dec), 1896-99, 1900, 1901 (Jan), 1902 (Mar-Dec), 1903-1921, 1928-29, 1931-65.
See also under microfilms.
KILKENNY MODERATOR
1814, 1815, 1821, 1827, 1829, 1833, 1835-37, 1838 (Jan-Feb), 1839, 1840 (Jan-Mar), 1841-42, 1844-45, 1849-1871, 1873-76, 1878 (Jun-Dec), 1879, 1882-1897, 1899, 1900-02, 1904, 1906-15, 1916 (Jan-Aug).
See also under microfilms.
KILKENNY PEOPLE
1916-1944, 1946-1965, 1967-1975, 1978, 1981-1986, 1988-1992, 2002-2005
See also under microfilms.
KILKENNY STANDARD
1981-2, 1990-91, 1992 (Mar-Jun)
THE NATION. (Dublin, Nationalist.)
Vol. 1, No. 1. 15 Oct. 1842 to 22 Jul. 1848.
WEEKLY NEWS (Dublin)
Various issues 1865-67.
UNITED IRELAND. (Dublin)
1883-85.
FREEMAN’S JOURNAL. (Dublin)
1893 (Feb-Apr).
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
1852, 1861 (Jul-Dec).
THE POST – a Kilkenny newspaper
1930; 1931; 1934-1939; 1947; 1955
See also under microfilms.
THE QUEEN, THE LADY’S NEWSPAPER
(UK weekly. Strong on fashion.)
1879 (Jul-Dec)
MICROFILM HELD AT KAS
Microfilm copies have been acquired to fill, so far as is possible, the gaps in the library’s holdings of hardcopies of Kilkenny newspapers.
FINN’S LEINSTER JOURNAL (continued as Leinster Journal and Kilkenny Journal)
1767-76, 1778-99, 1801-12, 1818-24, 1827-28, 1830-31, 1861, 1887, 1891, 1894, 1901, 1924-26, 1930
KILKENNY INDEPENDENT
Oct. 1926 to Jun. 1928. Incomplete.
KILKENNY MODERATOR.
1814-22, 1825 (from 19 Feb.), 1828, 1830-32, 1834, 1838, 1840, 1843, 1846-48, 1876-77, 1879-81, 1897-98, 1900-01, 1903, 1905, 1917-18, 1921-24.
KILKENNY PEOPLE
Oct 1895 -1897, 1901-1909, 1911-1940, 1942-1969, Jul 1970-1999, 2001-2007.
THE POST a Kilkenny newspaper
1927-29, 1932-33.