Saoirse Irish Freedom

This article is about the current publication. For other uses, see Saoirse (disambiguation).

Saoirse Irish Freedom

Saoirse Irish Freedom front page from July 2011.
Type	Monthly political newspaper
Publisher	Republican Sinn Féin
Founded	November 1986
Language	English, Irish
Circulation	Several hundred ^[vague]^[citation needed]
Website	[1]

Saoirse Irish Freedom is the monthly organ of Republican Sinn Féin (RSF).^[1] It replaced Republican Bulletin^[2] the first issue of which appeared in November, 1986 to explain the reasons for the split in Sinn Féin.^[3]

Its format was eight A4 pages, continuing monthly until, in May 1987. In November of that year, Saoirse became an eight-page tabloid. Since then, the paper has been produced as a 16-page monthly magazine. In June 1996 RSF first published an issue via the Internet.^[4]

The name Saoirse Irish Freedom is taken from the 1910 - 1914 publication, Irish Freedom.^[1]

See also

• An Phoblacht - newspaper of Sinn Féin
• The Socialist (Irish newspaper) - newspaper of the Socialist Party
• Socialist Voice (Ireland) - newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland
• The Starry Plough (newspaper) - newspaper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party

References

1. Saoirse – Irish Freedom
2. Republican Bulletin
3. Republican Bulletin November 1986
4. First issue of Saoirse Irish Freedom

External links

• Official siteincludes archives back to 1987 Archived 10 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• Online and searchable copies of Saoirse are available at http://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/IrishRepublicanMovement Archived 8 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Archived issues at the Irish Republican Digital Archive