Irish Examiner archives: 1940's were a decade of war and want — and yet change

While historians dissect the major events in the life of the nation, newspapers provide a living history — tracking and recording not just the headline news or the grand themes but also the everyday lives of ordinary people.

The Irish Examiner has been doing this since 1841 and last November, for the first time, a huge swathe of that material became available in digital form.

Stage one of the archive project launched last November provides reproduction of the Irish Examiner from 1841 to 1939.