United Irishman
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Use dmy dates Template:Italic title The United Irishman was an Irish nationalist newspaper co-founded by Arthur Griffith and William Rooney.<ref>Arthur Griffith Template:Webarchive Contributors Tomás A. O'Riordan, www.ucc.ie</ref> It was first published on 4 March 1899 and ran from 1899 to 1906. Contributors included Oliver St. John Gogarty, Pádraig Pearse, Maud Gonne and Roger Casement. The writer James Joyce is quoted as saying that the United Irishman was "the only newspaper of pretensions in Ireland".<ref name=kr>Rafter, Kevin. Sinn Fein 1905-2005: In the Shadow of the Gunmen. Gill & Macmillan, 2005.</ref> In 1906 the United Irishman collapsed under a libel suit and was refounded as Sinn Féin, which ran until 1914 when it was suppressed by the British government.
Further reading
- A Most Seditious Lot: The Militant-Separatist Press 1896-1916, The Irish Republic website