The ''Galway Vindicator'' was a
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
which operated in
Galway
Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lo ...
,
Ireland
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from 10 July 1841 to 4 November 1899. It was one of several newspapers founded to help advance the agenda of
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...
and was noted for its daily coverage of the effects of the
Great Famine. The full title was 'The Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser', and a full run of the newspaper from 1841 to 1899 is available in the
British Library
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Newspaper Collection, with some issues digitised in the
British Newspaper Archive
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History
The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, u ...
.
References
British Newspaper Archiveat Gale Group.
Newspapers published in the Republic of Ireland
Mass media in County Galway
Newspapers established in 1841
Publications disestablished in 1899
Defunct newspapers published in Ireland
1841 establishments in Ireland
1899 disestablishments in Ireland
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