Irish newspapers, such as this copy from Kilkenny, spread the inspiring words of the American Declaration of Independence to Ireland in August 1776 (right-hand column of newspaper image 2 and left-hand column of newspaper image 3). The Declaration’s principles later resonated with the Irish Volunteers who stood for an Ireland governed by Irishmen. Newspapers also conveyed the violence of revolution, specifically through news of the escalation of war in America. One article in this paper mentions Virginia Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s recruitment of enslaved men of African descent to fight against the American “rebels.”

Finn’s Leinster Journal
Published by Edmund Finn
August 24, 1776
Paper, Ink
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland 

Irish newspapers, such as this copy from Kilkenny, spread the inspiring words of the American Declaration of Independence to Ireland in August 1776 (right-hand column of newspaper image 2 and left-hand column of newspaper image 3). The Declaration’s principles later resonated with the Irish Volunteers who stood for an Ireland governed by Irishmen. Newspapers also conveyed the violence of revolution, specifically through news of the escalation of war in America. One article in this paper mentions Virginia Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s recruitment of enslaved men of African descent to fight against the American “rebels.”

Finn’s Leinster Journal
Published by Edmund Finn
August 24, 1776
Paper, Ink
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland 

Irish newspapers, such as this copy from Kilkenny, spread the inspiring words of the American Declaration of Independence to Ireland in August 1776 (right-hand column of newspaper image 2 and left-hand column of newspaper image 3). The Declaration’s principles later resonated with the Irish Volunteers who stood for an Ireland governed by Irishmen. Newspapers also conveyed the violence of revolution, specifically through news of the escalation of war in America. One article in this paper mentions Virginia Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s recruitment of enslaved men of African descent to fight against the American “rebels.”

Finn’s Leinster Journal
Published by Edmund Finn
August 24, 1776
Paper, Ink
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland 

Irish newspapers, such as this copy from Kilkenny, spread the inspiring words of the American Declaration of Independence to Ireland in August 1776 (right-hand column of newspaper image 2 and left-hand column of newspaper image 3). The Declaration’s principles later resonated with the Irish Volunteers who stood for an Ireland governed by Irishmen. Newspapers also conveyed the violence of revolution, specifically through news of the escalation of war in America. One article in this paper mentions Virginia Royal Governor Lord Dunmore’s recruitment of enslaved men of African descent to fight against the American “rebels.”

Finn’s Leinster Journal
Published by Edmund Finn
August 24, 1776
Paper, Ink
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland