The ''Evening Telegraph'' was for most of its existence

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's leading evening newspaper. It was published in

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between 1871 and 1924. Its main rivals were the widely read ''

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'' and the less widely read ''

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''.

Launch

The ''Evening Telegraph'' was launched in 1871 by a former Irish nationalist

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Edmund Dwyer Gray. The newspaper was unavowedly Irish nationalist in its politics. It was originally a weekly newspaper but soon became daily (except Sundays). It was particularly famous for the attention it paid to covering social events, and for its use of drawings as illustrations. A project is currently underway to help restore a 16 June 1904 edition.

Distinctive pink colour

The paper was published on distinctive pink

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, which marked it out visually from the buff (brownish-yellow) paper colour used by one of its Dublin rivals, the ''Dublin Evening Mail''.

Literary association

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sells advertising for the ''Evening Telegraph'' in

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's novel ''

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''.

Closure in 1924

The paper was published between 1871 and 1924. It closed in the same year as the main daily Nationalist newspaper, the ''

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''. It is unclear whether the elimination of the

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in the 1918 general election, and the achievement of

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as opposed to the IPP’s desired

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, undermined the need for the old Nationalist newspapers attached to a political order that had been swept away between 1916 and 1922.

References

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