Irish Family History

For anyone interested in the Irish diaspora, there are sure to be some interesting articles relating to Irish immigrant families in the Australian newspapers.

The Australian Newspapers Beta service launched on 25th July 2008 with 70,000 pages from the following Newspaper titles:

• The Argus
• The Brisbane Courier
• The Canberra Times
• The Courier-Mail
• The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter
• The Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen’s Land Advertiser
• The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser
• The Mercury
• The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
• The South Australian Advertiser
• The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

This Beta service is part of a collaboration between the National Library of Australia, and the Australian State and Territory libraries which aims to digitise out of copyright newspapers.

The free online service will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles from newspapers from each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s. It includes the first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803.

As the Australian Newspapers service is currently in Beta phase there is only a limited amount of content available at the moment, but we recommend you bookmark the site and keep coming back to it as new data is being added all the time. The Library welcomes feedback on the service.

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