Belfast Morning News

The Belfast Morning News (from 1882 the Morning News and, for a brief period (1882-83) the Morning News and Examiner) was a daily newspaper in Ireland from 1855 until it merged with the Irish News in August 1892. It was published in Belfast.[1] It was owned by the family of Edmund Dwyer Gray and edited by P.J. Kelly.[2] The writer and advocate for worker’s rights Robert Arthur Wilson[3] wrote for the paper under the pen name was Barney McGlone.[4] Wilson edited the paper from 1874 until his death in 1875.[5] Historical copies of the Belfast Morning News, dating back to 1857, are available to search and view in the digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive. [6]

References
  1. National Library of Ireland
  2. A Century of Northern Life: The Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History 1890s-1990s, Eamon Phoenix (ed.), (Ulster Historical Foundation, £10 .95). A History of The Belfast Telegraph, Malcolm Brodie, (Blackstaff Press, £14.99). Book Review, History Ireland
  3. Wheres That by Flann O'Riain, The Irish Times, March 8, 1999.
  4. At the Sign of the Peacock - Newspapers in Belfast www.culturenorthernireland.org
  5. []http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/w/Wilson_RA/life.htm R A Wilson] A Life, www.ricorso.net
  6. Digitised copies of the Belfast Morning News
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