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The Universal News was published in London for nine years between December 1860 and December 1869. It originated as a co-operative effort between Irish and English Catholics to produce a newspaper which, though essentially secular, was to be imbued with a religious sensibility. The great majority of Catholics, however, were by this stage overwhelmingly Irish and wanted news of Ireland and Irish politics. This was not necessarily to the taste of all, so from the outset a balancing act was required between the wants and needs of English and Irish Catholics. This was not to be without its problems, for as the decade progressed and the struggle developed between a secular Irish nationalism and church and state, divisions deepened. The Universal News quickly became a paper for Irish Catholics, spanned a turbulent decade and mirrored in its own history both the internal and external struggles of the Irish in England. Furthermore, the history of the Universal News demonstrates the centrality, in Irish journalism in England, of the influence of the church, and the central question for the press of the migrants was how, in a hostile political environment, to produce and sustain newspapers that were at the same time secular but operated within a system of distribution particularly sensitive to clerical control.
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There is no page 1 of Flag of Ireland for 7 August 1875: yet page 2 has been scanned. There should be a way to report this sort of thing from the page rather than trying for ages to find a way to pass it on.
The Weekly Herald despite its short run (1888 to 1893) covers London Irish and Catholic politics and news at an important time in Irish history - namely the lead-up to and fallout from the fall of Parnell. It offers a very different take on Catholic events to The Tablet, and also to the way the great mythologist Yeats recalled the Irish Revival of these years. The BL holds the paper on microfilm, so it wouldn't be too hard to digitise quickly!