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The Dublin Evening Mail (renamed the Evening Mail in 1928) was between 1823[1] and 1962 one of Dublin's evening newspapers. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland.

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Origins

Launched in 1823, it proved to be the longest lasting evening paper in Ireland. Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world The paper was an instant success, with first editor Joseph Timothy Haydn from Limerick seeing its readership hit 2,500 in a month, making it at that stage (when few could read, and the only people who bought papers where the gentry and aristocracy) the city's top seller. Limerick (pronounced /ˈlɪmrɪk/ Luimneach in Irish) is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the Province of Munster Gentry generally refers to people of high Social class, especially in the past Aristocracy is a form of Government, where rule is established through an internal struggle over who has the most status and influence over society and internal relations Its readership ebbed and flowed during the century. Though it easily outsold rivals like the Dublin Evening Standard, its readership in 1900 was small compared with national papers such as the Evening Telegraph, which had 26,000 readers, The Irish Times which had 45,000, and the Freeman's Journal which had 40,000. The Dublin Evening Standard was a shortlived Irish newspaper that was published from 10 January to 23 May 1870. Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. The Freeman's Journal was the oldest nationalist newspaper in Ireland.

20th century challenges

Nevertheless it managed to outlast both the Telegraph and the Freeman's Journal, but faced a far stiffer challenge in the mid 20th century from the nationwide-selling Evening Herald and Evening Press though as late as the early 1950s it remained Dublin’s biggest selling evening newspaper. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The Evening Herald is a Tabloid evening Newspaper published in Dublin, Ireland by Independent News & Media. For the York paper formerly known by the same name see The Press (York For the Guernsey ( Channel Islands) paper known by the same

Bought, then closed, by the Irish Times

The mail was bought by The Irish Times in its final few years. The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. Having failed to turn the newspaper around (it had hoped to turn it into its own evening paper to rival the Irish Independent/Evening Herald and the Irish Press/Evening Press relationships, the Irish Times controversially closed the paper on 10 July 1962. The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest selling daily newspaper The Irish Press was an Irish Newspaper published by Irish Press plc between September 5 1931, on the eve of the 1931 Kilkenny v Cork Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Some of its staff and columns transferred directly over to the Irish Times.

Printed on buff paper

The paper was published on distinctive buff (brownish yellow) paper in contrast to the pink paper of its rival, the Evening Telegraph.

Links with Joyce, Stoker, Le Fanu

The Dublin Evening Mail featured in short stories in James Joyce's The Dubliners. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962. Formation and history The Dubliners formed in 1962 The Mail was once co-owned by author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, who also owned or part-owned The Warden, the Protestant Guardian, Evening Packet, and Dublin University Magazine. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 &ndash 7 February 1873 was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels The Warden is the first Novel in Anthony Trollope 's series known as the " Chronicles of Barsetshire " published in 1855. Bram Stoker worked as an unpaid theatre critic for the paper. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912 was an Irish writer of novels and short stories who is best known today for his 1897 horror

Competition to select a national anthem

In June 1923, the Mail ran a competition to select an Irish national anthem (though Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldiers Song) was used informally, it had not been adopted, and the W. T. Cosgrave's Executive Council was coming under pressure to choose an anthem to end confusion over whether to play Amhrán an BhFiann or God Save the King for the Irish Free State abroad. ga '''''Amhrán na bhFiann''''' ( is the National anthem of Ireland. William Thomas Cosgrave (Liam Tomás Mac Cosgair 6 June 1880 &ndash 16 November 1965 known generally as W The Executive Council (Ard-Chomhairle was the cabinet and de facto Executive branch of government of the 1922&ndash1937 Irish Free State. "God Save the Queen", or "God Save the King", is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms It is the National The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann (1922&ndash1937 was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by The paper appointed W.B. Yeats, Lennox Robinson and James Stephens to be the adjudicators, with a prize of fifty guineas on offer for the winning offer. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson ( 4 October 1886 - 15 October 1958) was an Irish Dramatist, Poet and Theatre James Stephens may refer to James Stephens (trade unionist (1821–1889 Welsh-born Australian stonemason and trade unionist James B Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (pronounced /ˈgɪni/ République de Guinée is a country in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea However the adjudicators decided that none of the new compositions were of sufficient standard to win the fifty guineas. In 1928 the Free State finally adopted Amhrán na bhFiann as its anthem.

Publication dates

Trivia

Famed Irish-American Brigadier General Charles Graham Halpine (1829-1868), known usually by his pseudonym Private Myles O' Reilly was the son of a longtime editor of the Dublin Evening Mail (who while editing was also serving as a Church of Ireland priest). Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánach are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. Charles Graham Halpine (Halpin (pseud Miles O'Reilly (November 20 1829 – August 3 1868 was an Irish Journalist and author The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities Halpine was among other things the private secretary to P.T. Barnum, became a prominent journalist with the New York Times, a decorated soldier in the 69th New York Volunteer Infantry and in the Irish Brigade (where his letters, sent as "Private Myles O'Reilly", to the media defending the union became famous), and a key figure in the creation of the United States Army's first African-American regiment. Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5 1810 &ndash April 7 1891 was an American Showman remembered for Hoaxes and for founding the Circus that became the The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa He finished his career as a crusader against local government corruption in New York, before accidentally chloroforming himself to death while trying to cure a severe headache. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous

Footnotes

  1. ^  Some sources record the Dublin Evening Mail as having been founded in 1821. However as the National Library of Ireland records the date as 1823 that date is being used in this article.

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