Hello all, Sorry for the repeated message as I'm sending it to the Counties of my interest... Not sure if anyone is already aware of the following...I gathered the below information from multiple web sites while surfing the net for available Irish newpapers---Looks like we're all in for a treat in the near future....... Irish Newspaper Archive is launching its digital database in 2005, the website will be launched with the full archives of The Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, The Freeman’s Journal, The Nation, The Connaught Telegraph, The Meath Chronicle and The Anglo-Celt. More regional newspaper archives will be digitized and added to the site on a monthly basis. The database runs from 1763 to current year. All the news titles are word searchable and date range indexed. From 'ALL IRELAND SOURCES’ NEWSLETTER' ex Australia the following details: (the url is too long...just google search the above and voila!) Title Date 1.) The Freeman's Journal 1763-1924 2.) The Nation 1842-1897 3.) The Evening Telegraph 1916 -1919 4.) The Daily Telegraph 1888 -1904 5.) Ballina Herald 1927-1962 6.) Finns Leinster Journal 1767-1828 7.) Rights of Irishmen 8.) Press Dublin 1797-1798 9.) Ballinrobe Chronicle 1866-1903 10.) Western Journal 1977-1983 11.) Kerry Weekly Reporter 1927-1935 12.) Kerry People 1925-1928 13.) Mayoman 1919-1921 Regional newspapers 1.) The Anglo-Celt [Cavan] 1846-Current year 2.) Connaught Telegraph [Mayo] 1975-Current year 3.) Kilkenny People [Kilkenny] 1922-Current year 4.) Leinster Leader [Kildare] 1881-Current year 5.) The Meath Chronicle [Meath] 1904 -Current year 6.) The Mayo News [Mayo] 1997-Current year 7.) The Tuam Herald [Galway] 1882-Current year 8.) The Tipperary Star [Tipperary] 1909- Current year 9.) The Leitrim Observer [Leitrim] 1923-1981 (to be filmed to current year) 10.) The Lirnerick Leader [Limerick] 1905-Current year 11.) The Dundalk Democrat [Louth] 1859-Current year 12.) Nationalist & Munster Advertiser [Tipperary] I890-Current year. 13.) Connaught Tribune [Galway] 1909-Current year 14.) Connacht Sentinel [Galway] 1975-Current year 15.) Donegal Democrat [Donegal] 1919-Current year 16.) Drogheda Independent [Louth] 1885-1891 & 1988-Current year 17.) Fingal Independent 1993-Current year 18.) The Kerryman [Kerry] 1904-Current year 19.) Leinster Express [Laois] 1956-Current year 20.) Munster Express [Waterford] 1908-Current year 21.) Nationalist & Leinster Times [Carlow] 1883-Current year 22.) Northern Standard [Monaghan] 1863-Current year 23.) The People [Wexford] 1863-Current year 24.) Roscommon Herald [Roscommon] 1882-1997 (to be filmed to current year) 25.) Southern Star [Cork] 1921-Current year In a Q and A regarding the upcoming site it stated: If you feel that your institution may be interested in subscribing to this website they offer a free individual license for a years access to the website if they successfully introduce an institutionsl client to their website!!! the ESTIMATED cost for unlimited access to all newspapers available will be about 160 Euros per year for individuals and about 5000 Euros for institutions. THE WEB SITE IS NOT YET ONLINE This should be a major break through for many of us trying to make a dnet in a few of those hard to crack Irish brick walls. Nancy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com