Saoirse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SAOIRSE Irish Freedom is the monthly organ of Republican Sinn Féin. It was first published in May 1987 and incorporated the "Republican Bulletin"^[1] The name is derived from the Irish word for "Freedom". One of the first priorities of Republican Sinn Féin was to produce a paper. In November, 1986 the first issue of Republican Bulletin appeared to explain the reasons for the split and the progress of the re-organisation. It’s format was A4 with eight pages. Republican Bulletin continued to be produced every month until May 1987 when it was replaced by a new monthly Saoirse – Irish Freedom which was published in the same A4 format. In November 1987, Saoirse began to be produced as an eight-page tabloid. Since then, the paper has continued to grow and is currently produced as a 16-page monthly tabloid.

In June 1996 Republican Sinn Fein published their first issue on the Internet service.

It is also a given name to females and males in Ireland. It had been popular since the 1920s. "Saoirse" is pronounced /ˈsɪərʃə/ SEER-shə in English.

Saoirse, a Fenian paper which first appeared in November 1910 and continued as a monthly publication until December 1914 when it was suppressed by the British authorities. Among the contributors to that paper were Bulmer Hobson, PS Hegerty, Terence McSwiney, Pádraig Pearse, Ernest Blythe, Piaras Beaslaí, Pat Devlin, Fred Cogley, JW Good and Roger Casement.

IUPUI University Library has collaborated with the School of Liberal Arts to digitize and chronologically display older issues of the newspaper which were previously unavailable online. More recent issues are available in the Saoirse Online Newsroom archive.^[2]

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Saoirse - Older digital issues of Saoirse.
• http://www.rsf.ie/saoirse.htm

[edit] References