''The Irish Emigrant'' was a weekly Irish emigrant newspaper published electronically from 1987 to 2012.

History

The paper was founded in 1987 by Liam Ferrie in response to requests from his colleagues at

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and became a commercial venture on the closure of DEC's Galway plant in 1994. At its height it was read by over twenty thousand email subscribers in over 160 countries and up until its closure laid claim to the title of Ireland's longest established Internet publishing company. From 1995, content from the paper was incorporated into a hard copy publication of the same name, published by Connell Gallagher, and distributed in pubs in

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. Following the retirement of Liam and Pauline Ferrie in February 2012, ''The Irish Emigrant'' was bought by publisher

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and, along with the New York-published ''

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'', was folded into a new free-distribution weekly, ''IrishCentral''.

Accolades

Liam Ferrie was the first winner of the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, in 1999. Liam and Pauline Ferrie won the 2003 Golden Spider Award for Significant Contribution to the Internet in Ireland.

References

External links

The Irish Emigrant
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