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