You might wonder what newspapers were available “way back then” and where you might access them to day. The biggest collection is in the National Library in Dublin – if microfilm is available that is what you get. There is a project called Newsplan which you can search on the National Library website, it lists the publications, where they might be accessed and in what format.
The Cork city and county libraries also have large numbers of files on old newspapers.
Here are some, not all of the titles : ( in brackets ..NL means National Library). The National Library also has a fine database called SOURCES – You can check this at Sources.nli.ie
| Title | Year(s) | NOTES |
| Bagatelle | 1827 | N/A |
| Constitution / Cork Morning Post | 1822 -1924 | NL |
| Cork Advertiser and Commercial Register | 1799 | |
| Cork Advertising Gazette | 1855 | |
| Cork & South of Ireland General Advertiser | 1851 | |
| Cork Augustinian | 1941 | |
| Cork Chronicle and Munster Advertiser | 1765 | Only 1854 in NL |
| Cork Courier | 1794 | |
| Cork Evening Herald | 1833 | |
| Cork Evening Post | 1755 | |
| Cork Examiner | 1841 | |
| Cork Free Press | 1910 | |
| Cork Gazette | 1790 | NOT in NL |
| Cork Gazette and General Advertiser | 1790 | |
| Cork General Advertiser | 1777 only | Cork, Knox |
| Cork Herald and Southern Counties Advertiser | 1857 | |
| Cork Holly Bough | 1927 | |
| Cork Journal | 1753 | |
| Cork Morning Intelligencer | 1810 1822 | |
| Cork Packet | 1793 | NOT in NL |
| Cork Phoenix or West’s Advertiser | 1812 | |
| Cork Sentinel | 1830 | |
| Cork Sun | 1903 | |
| Cork Weekly Chronicle | 1908 | |
| Cork Weekly Examiner | 1895 | |
| Cork Weekly News | 1893 | |
| Cork Weekly Times and Commercial Economist | 1833 | |
| Daily Times | 1821 1830 | Cork |
| Evening Echo | 1892 | Cork |
| Freeholder | 1813 | Cork |
| Harp of Erin | 1798 only | Cork |
| Hibernian Chronicle | 1769 – 1835 | Cork |
| Hibernian Morning Post or Literary Chronicle | 1775 | Cork |
| Independent Journal | 1775 | Cork |
| Irish Monthly Mercury | 1649 -1650 | Cork |
| Munster Advertiser | 1839 | |
| New Evening Post | 1782 only | |
| North Cork Herald | 1904 | |
| Patriotic Magazine | 1808 -1809 | |
| People’s Press &Cork Weekly Register | 1834 | |
| Province of Munster | 1849 | |
| Queenstown Gazette | 1851 | |
| Scragg’s General Cork Advertiser | 1854 | |
| Shandon Bells | 1889 | |
| Skibereen & West Carbery Eagle | 1857 – 1928 | |
| Southern Patriot | 1844 | Mallow |
| Southern Reporter | 1807 | |
| Southern Star | 1864 | |
| Southern Star | 1890 | Skibereen |
| Varsity Re-Echo | 1839 | |
| Volunteer Journal or Independent Gazeteer ( NL, microfilm 1782 – 1787) | 1782 | |
| Weekly Herald | 1867 | |
| Youghal Tribune , NL microfilm from 1940 to 1957) | Before 1940 | Youghal |
