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Newspapers

Digitised Collections

The Kildare Observer (1880-1935) is available for free here

The Irish Newspaper Archive is available to access for free in all branch libraries in County Kildare. It can also be accessed in the Local Studies Service in Harbour View, Naas. This digital archive includes a range of national and regional newspapers, including The Kildare Nationalist (formerly Nationalist&Leinster Times), The Leinster Express, The Irish Independent, The Freeman's Journal and The Irish Press. The Leinster Leader has also been partially digitised up to 1929.

The Radical Newspaper Archive is also available to access for free in all  branch libraries in County Kildare, along with Local Studies in Harbour View, Naas. This collection includes a wide range of specialist papers across the political spectrum, including nationalist, republican, labour and suffragette publications. This resource is supported by the County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee. 

The British Newspaper Archive is available for free in the Local Studies Department at Harbour View, Naas by prior appointment. It is also available in the main branch libraries in Athy, Celbridge, Kildare, Leixlip, Maynooth, Naas and Newbridge. This resource is particularly useful as it includes several decades of The Leinster Leader (1884-1889 & 1925-1955) along with many other papers.

Newspapers available on microfilm in Local Studies Department, Harbour View, Naas.

Leinster Leader - 1881/82 – 2018 (1881/82 – 1884 holdings are incomplete; many issues missing)
Kildare Observer - 1880 – 1935. [complete - paper discontinued in 1935]
Nationalist and Leinster Times - 1880-1950 
Freeman’s Journal - 1763 – 1860.
Finn's Leinster Journal - 1767-1828 [ missing - 1777, 1784-85; 1800; 1804; 1809-1817; 1825-26]
Leinster Express - 24 Sept 1831 – 1884.
Irish Times 1859 - 1923; Jan. 1997 – 2003.
Dublin Penny Journal - 1832-1836.

Newspapers and magazines available in hardcopy [not usually issued to public when microfilm/digital version exists for preservation and access reasons]

Leinster Leader - Most issues from 1900 onwards. Condition varies from good to extremely poor.  All years now on microfilm and some digitised on the Irish Newspaper Archive and the British Newspaper Archive.
Kildare Nationalist - 1983 - present.
Liffey Champion - 1990 onwards. Missing some issues, particularly in the early years. (Please note that the Liffey Champion is currently only available in original hard copy format, by prior appointment).
The Curragh News (bound photocopy) - Feb. – Sept. 1891.
The Ballitore Magazine (bound photocopy) - 2nd series 1821.
Leixlip Life (bound 4 vols) April 1973 – March 1982.
New Link Magazine, Newbridge 1973-1976.
Maynooth Newsletter 1975 onwards
Lucan Times 
The Dublin Penny Journal 1832-3; 1834-5.

Please email localhistory@kildarecoco.ie or phone 045906103 or 045906104 for further details or to make an appointment.