‘Irish Examiner’ archives reel back the years

Since 1841, the Irish Examiner has recorded the major events in the life of our nation, and much of that material is now available to view online, thanks to the digitisation of the archives as part of a national media project overseen by the Irish Newspaper Archives.

Stage one of the archive project was launched last November, and today we make available archives up to 1999. The rollout of the rest of the archive will be completed by January next.

While Ireland in the 1950s was a dour and colourless place, the following decade dawned with high hopes for the future. The 1960s saw Ireland’s re-birth as a modern nation, economically, politically, and socially.