Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Irish Times Trust
Editor	Geraldine Kennedy
Founded	29 March 1859 (shortlived existence 1823-1825)
Political allegiance	Liberal
Headquarters	24-28 Tara Street, Dublin. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more Geraldine Kennedy (born 1951 is an Irish journalist and former politician Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland.
Website: www.ireland.com

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. Events and Trends Industry Production of Steel revolutionized by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman The current editor is Geraldine Kennedy, who succeeded Conor Brady in 2002. Geraldine Kennedy (born 1951 is an Irish journalist and former politician Conor Brady was the editor of The Irish Times for 16 years between 1986 and 2002 having previously edited the Sunday Tribune.

Though formed as a Protestant Irish nationalist paper, within two decades, and under new owners, it had become the voice of Irish unionists who wanted Ireland to remain a full part of the United Kingdom. Unionism in Ireland, is a belief in the desirability of a full constitutional and institutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain based on the terms and

Today, its most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O'Toole, the satirist Miriam Lord and former taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Garret FitzGerald. Fintan O'Toole (born 1958) is a Columnist, assistant editor and Drama Critic for The Irish Times. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human The Taoiseach (ˈtiːʃəx in English t̪ˠiːʃʲəx (plural Taoisigh ( or) in Irish) also referred to as An Taoiseach ( t̪ˠiːʃʲəx is the the Garret FitzGerald (Gearóid Mac Gearailt born 9 February 1926 was the seventh Taoiseach of Ireland, serving two terms in office (July 1981 to February 1982 December Senior international figures, including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and others have written for its 'Op-Ed' (Opinion and Editorial) page. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Its most prominent columns have included Drapier (an anonymous column produced weekly by a politician, giving the 'insider' view of politics), "An Irishman's Diary" (previously penned by the controversial commentator, Kevin Myers, until his move to the rival Irish Independent, and now written by Frank McNally), and Rite and Reason, its weekly religious column, edited by Patsy McGarry, its Religious Affairs Editor. This article is about the journalist For the American Pie character see American Pie (film Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947 is an Irish The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest selling daily newspaper Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs correspondent of The Irish Times in the Republic of Ireland. On the sports pages, Tom Humphries' Locker Room column features. Tom Humphries is a sportswriter and columnist who writes for The Irish Times.

One of its most famous columns was the biting and humorous Cruiskeen Lawn satire column written by Myles na gCopaleen, the pen name of Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who also wrote books using the name Flann O'Brien. Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966 was an Irish novelist and satirist best known for his novels An Béal Bocht, At Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966 was an Irish novelist and satirist best known for his novels An Béal Bocht, At Cruiskeen Lawn is an anglicized spelling of the Irish words cruiscín lán, meaning 'the full little jug'. Cruiskeen Lawn first appeared in the early 1940s and continued almost daily for over twenty five years.

It is also the Irish newspaper with the most bureaux abroad; it has had full time correspondents in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, London, Central and South America, Africa and other parts of the world. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it had a daily circulation of 117,370 during the second six months of 2005. A Newspaper 's circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 History 2 Format and Content 3 Columns 4 Editors 5 Notable Contributors (past and present) 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

History

The first appearance of a newspaper using the name The Irish Times occurred in 1823 but it closed in 1825. Year 1825 ( MDCCCXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The title was revived as a thrice weekly publication by Major Lawrence E. Knox, with the first edition being published on 29 March 1859. Major Lawrence Edward Knox was a British Army officer He founded The Irish Times in 1859 Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common It was originally founded as a moderate Protestant Irish nationalist newspaper, reflecting the politics of Knox, who stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Isaac Butt's Home Rule League. Isaac Butt 6 September 1813 &ndash 5 May 1879) was an Irish Barrister, and the founder and first leader of a number of Irish nationalist The Home Rule League, sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was a Political party which campaigned for Home rule for the island of Ireland from 1873 to Its headquarters were at 4 Lower Abbey Street in Dublin.

After Knox's death in 1873 the paper was sold to the widow of Sir John Arnott, MP, a former Lord Mayor of Cork and owner of Arnotts, one of Dublin's major Department stores. Sir John Arnott (1814 &ndash 28 March 1898) was an Irish Entrepreneur and a major figure in the commercial and political spheres of late-19th A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. The Lord Mayor of Cork is the symbolic head of the local government in the city of Cork in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. A department store is a Retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. The sale, for £35,000, led to two major changes. Its headquarters was shifted to 31 Westmoreland Street. It remained in buildings on or near that site until 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Its politics also shifted dramatically, becoming predominantly Protestant and Unionist. Unionism in Ireland, is a belief in the desirability of a full constitutional and institutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain based on the terms and The paper famously called for the execution of the leaders of the failed 1916 Easter Rising ^[1]. The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916

Though the paper became a publicly listed company in 1900, the family continued to hold a majority shareholding until the 1960s (even after the family lost control, the great-grandson of the original purchaser was the paper's London editor). The last member of the Arnott family to sit on the paper's board was Sir Lauriston Arnott, who died in 1958.

Today, the newspaper is not owned by shareholders, but rather overseen by the Irish Times Trust. The Trust was created in 1974 as a guarantor of editorial independence, to prevent takeover by private individuals, and to guard against commercial pressures. The Irish Times is the only newspaper in Ireland, and one of only a few worldwide, to be protected in this way.

According to the Trust's memorandum of association, the purpose of the body is to "publish The Irish Times as an independent newspaper primarily concerned with serious issues for the benefit of the community throughout the whole of Ireland free from any form of personal or of party political, commercial, religious or other sectional control. "

The Irish Times faced considerable financial difficulty in 2002 when a downturn in advertising revenue coincided with a decision to invest its reserves in the building of a new printing plant; none of its journalists were laid off, but a large number availed of a voluntary redundancy package, when the paper underwent major restructuring. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Some of its external bureaux were closed, while it also ceased publishing 'colour' pages specifically devoted to covering local Irish regions, with regional coverage now merged with news. The reorganisation appears to have had the desired effect; after posting losses of almost €3 million in 2002, the paper returned to profit in 2003.

In 1895, the paper moved from its original offices on Middle Abbey Street (the street that was until late 2004 the home of the Irish Independent) to D'Olier Street in the south city centre. The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest selling daily newspaper "D'Olier Street" became a synonym for "The Irish Times", which in turn is personified as "The Old Lady of D'Olier Street". In October 2006, the paper relocated from its historical home of D'Olier Street in Dublin city centre to a new building in Tara Street, only two hundred metres away. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland.

In May 2005, the paper launched a new international edition, which is available in London and southeast England at the same time as other daily newspapers. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland (Previously, copies of the Irish edition were flown from Dublin to major cities in Britain on passenger flights, arriving around lunchtime. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located ) The new edition is printed at the Newsfax plant in Hackney, and uses the Financial Times distribution network. The London Borough of Hackney ( is a London borough in North-East London and forms part of Inner London. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper. [1]

The company has diversified out of its original Irish Times title as a source of revenue. This process has seen the company, Irish Times Ltd. , take a majority share in the Gazette Group Newspapers a local newspaper group publishing three local newspapers in West Dublin for €5m. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. This path of diversification has also seen the Irish Times acquire a property website ^[2], the second-largest property internet portal in Ireland, for €50m, seen as an insurance policy against the loss of traditional classified property advertising revenues.

The company acquired the domain name Ireland. In Computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according com in the mid 1990s and uses it to publish its online edition. Initially free, charges and registration for access to most of the content were introduced in the early 2000s. A number of blogs were added in April 2007 written by Irish Times writers Jim Carroll, Shane Hegarty and Conor Pope.

Format and Content

The paper follows the same standard layout every day. The front page contains one main picture and three main news stories, with the left-hand column, NewsDigest, providing a 'teaser' of some of the stories inside the HomeNews, WorldNews, Sport and BusinessToday sections as well as some other information such as Lotto numbers, weather forecast, etc. Inside, it usually contains eight to twelve pages of Irish news, called HomeNews, which covers the whole island of Ireland (ie. the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). It regularly devotes several pages to important stories such as the publication of government reports, the Budget, major courts cases, etc.

WorldNews contains some pages of world news from its correspondents abroad and also from the wires and news services such as Reuters, the Guardian Service and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post service. The Irish Times has staff correspondents in London, Paris, Brussels and Washington.

The Irish Times publishes its residential property supplement every Thursday, this being one of the printed residential property listing for the Dublin area. That section can also be found online. Motoring and employment supplements are published on Wednesday and Friday respectively, and can be found online also.

On Fridays, The Irish Times publishes a Business supplement and an entertainment supplement, The Ticket, with movie, music, theatre reviews, interviews, articles, and media listings. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. It features cinema writers Michael Dwyer and Donald Clarke and music writers Jim Carroll, Brian Boyd, Tony Clayton-Lea and others. Michael Dwyer (1772&ndash1825 was a Society of the United Irishmen leader in the 1798 rebellion. Donald Clarke may refer to Donald Clarke (writer, writer on music Don Clarke, New Zealand rugby union player Donald

On Saturdays it publishes a Weekend section, featuring news features, arts profiles, TV and radio columns and book reviews of a limited range of mainly literary and biographical works, with occasional reviews in the technology sector. Its Saturday edition also include the Magazine (consumer and lifestyle features on food, wine, gardening etc), a travel supplement and a sports supplement.

There are two crosswords in The Irish Times, the Simplex and the Crosaire and three Sudoku puzzles daily. The Crosaire Crossword ('krʌsərə is one of the Crossword puzzles contained in The Irish Times, the other being the "Simplex" crossword is a Logic -based number-placement Puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column each row and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks

The Letters' page from readers serves as a forum for reader debate on current topics.

The Irish Times features the political cartoons of Martyn Turner. Martyn Turner ( 1948 - is an English political Cartoonist, Caricaturist and Writer. , and the American cartoon strip Doonesbury. Doonesbury is a Comic strip by G B Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages professions The business section has a satirical illustration by David Rooney every Friday.

The Irish Times has an internet presence, but it does not provide free access to much of its print content, requiring a paid subscription, which limits direct citation in blogs. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of While the basic subscription also allows access to more recent archives, a second, more expensive level of subscription is required to access longer-term archives.

Columns

Regular columns include:

• An Irishman's Diary
• Social and Personal
• Rite and Reason is the weekly religious column. Social and Personal is one of the longest running columns in The Irish Times. The column is edited by The Irish Times religious editor, Patsy McGarry. Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs correspondent of The Irish Times in the Republic of Ireland. Many prominent Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland bishops, Irish Jewish leaders, theologians from all faiths and journalists, among others, have written the column, which is published on the Op-Ed (Opinion-Editorial) page every Monday. The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************

Editors

• Geraldine Kennedy, 2002-
• Conor Brady, 1986-2002, the first Roman Catholic to hold the post
• Douglas Gageby 1963-1986
• Alec Newman, 1954-1961
• R.M. "Bertie" Smyllie, 1934-1954

Notable Contributors (past and present)

• Garret FitzGerald
• Kevin Myers
• Myles na gCopaleen
• Conor O'Clery
• Fintan O'Toole
• Arthur Quinlan
• Martyn Turner
• John Waters
• Vincent Browne
• Lara Marlowe
• Miriam Lord
• Tom Humphries
• Maeve Binchy
• Donal Foley
• Mary Maher
• Mary Holland
• Seamus Martin
• Denis Staunton
• Joe Carroll
• Paul Gillespie

See also

• List of Irish companies
• Irish Times National Debating Championship

References

External links

• The Irish Times (pay subscription required for most sections).
• The Irish Times' Crosswords

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