Irish American newspapers are a great source of the genealogical information we need to document our family trees back to Ireland.
Part of GenealogyBank’s 6,500 newspaper archives is a special collection of 8 Irish American newspapers, providing coverage from 1810 to Today. These historical newspaper archives contain exclusive genealogy records that cannot be found anywhere else online, including 1800s Irish vital records that predate Civil Registration in Ireland.
GenealogyBank’s Irish American newspapers search form
Use this search page to search all of our Irish American newspapers at one time.
You can also search each paper separately. Here is a quick list of the individual search pages for each of the eight Irish American newspaper archives:
Exile (New York City, New York) 1817
Irish American Weekly (New York City, New York) 1849-1914
Irish Citizen (New York City, New York) 1867-1868
Irish Nation (New York City, New York) 1881-1883
Irish Voice (New York City, New York) 2006-Present, Obituaries only
Irish World (New York City, New York) 1890-1905
The Shamrock, Hibernian Chronicle (New York City, New York) 1810-1817
Western Star (New York City, New York) 1812-1813
