Irish Newspaper Archives This link opens in a new windowThe complete digitization of Ireland's newspaper heritage. Titles such as the Irish Independent (1905 - current), Sunday Independent, The Freeman's Journal, the Nation and many of Ireland's leading regional newspapers are fully searchable. Research Ireland's past as recorded by the leading publications of the day - the Wolfe Tone Rebellion of 1798 as reported in the Freeman's Journal to the great famine as reported in The Nation and more recent seminal moments in Irish history as reported in the Irish Independent.