Irish Freedom Explained

Irish Freedom
Type:	Former monthly newspaper
Foundation:	November 1910
Ceased Publication:	1914

Irish Freedom was launched in November 1910, as an Irish monthly publication of the Irish Republican Brotherhood movement. It lasted for four years until suppressed in 1914 by the British administration in Ireland.^[1]

It was founded in by Tom Clarke in 1910 with financial help from John Daly and Patrick McCartan.^[2]

The title was refounded in 1939, again as a monthly publication, by the Connolly Club and published in London.

The newspaper Saoirse Irish Freedom which replaced the Republican Bulletin, the official paper of the Republican Sinn Féin in May 1987 takes its name from the newspaper.^[3]

Notable contributors

Contributors included:^[3]

• Bulmer Hobson
• P. S. O'Hegarty
• Terence MacSwiney
• Patrick Pearse
• Ernest Blythe
• Piaras Béaslaí
• Roger Casement
• Brian O'Higgins
• Mairin Mitchell^[4]

External links

• The Fenian ideal and Irish nationalism, 1882-1916
• Movements for Political & Social Reform, 1870–1914
• An Irishman's Diary - The Irish Times - Mon, Aug 10, 2009
• A Short History of Ireland By John Ranelagh

Notes and References

1. Treasure Islands: Studies in Children's Literature By Mary Shine Thompson, Celia Keenan, Four Courts Press, 2006,, pp.34 https://books.google.com/books?id=7gkeAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Irish+Freedom%22+%22Newspaper%22
2. Book: 16 Lives:Edward Daly . Helen Litton . 45.
3. http://www.rsf.ie/saoirse.htm Saoirse – Irish Freedom
4. Mairin Mitchell, "Eire of the Swift Ships", in Irish Freedom No. 50, February 1943, p. 8