The Belfast Telegraph is added to the Irish Newspaper Archives

The Irish Newspaper Archive (www.irishnewsarchive.com) has added content form a paper that was very dear to me as a child, by the fact that I used to deliver it to homes across Carrickfergus for several years! Here's the announcement:

The World's oldest and largest Irish Newspaper Archives continues to grow. We have updated the archive with the following new content:

The Belfast Telegraph 1974 - 1997 & 2009 & 2019

The Belfast Telegraph from 1974 to 1997 (1998-2008 in progress) & 2009 & 2019 has made its long-awaited release on the Irish Newspaper Archives resource. The large microfilm repository for the Belfast Telegraph is only available from 1974 to 2008, the year’s proceeding 1974 were lost when a bomb destroyed the offices of the Belfast Telegraph. It was first published as the Belfast Evening Telegraph on 1 September 1870 by brothers William and George Baird. Its first edition cost half a penny and ran to four pages covering the Franco-Prussian War and local news.

The evening edition of the newspaper was originally called the "Sixth Late", and "Sixth Late Tele" and was a familiar cry made by vendors in Belfast City Centre in the past. When viewing the archives you will find the first edition for each complete followed by page changes from later editions at the end of the first edition.

The Belfast Telegraph Archive Count:
Available Years 1974 - 1997 , 2009 , 2019
Edition Count 6,260
Page Count 295,163

NB: Earlier editions of the 'Tele' are available on the British Newspaper Archive, from 1871-1983.

COMMENT: it was a pain in the next delivering it, it was a heavy paper, but I was a regular sight on the streets of Carrick in thre 1980s with my big orange newspaper bag with the Tele's logo on its side! I'll never forget the time that I got my first ever camera as a gift from the paper, for my efforts!

Chris

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