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Archive Search contains both Digital and Text Archives. The Digital archive contains exact reproductions of all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards, while the Text archive contains material published on ireland.com from 1996 onwards.

The Irish Times Digital archive is a fully searchable exact reproduction of all editions published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards. Editions are added seven days after publication date.

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The text archives contain all articles published on ireland.com, including The Irish Times online and Breaking News from 1996 onwards.

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1. Event names may have been coined after the event took place, e.g. World War I was known as the Great War. Try to search using words that describe the event or that may have been used in reports. 2. To find an exact phrase place quotation marks around your search terms, e.g. "George Bernard Shaw". 3. The archive will automatically return articles that include all of the search terms. 4. The search results are automatically sorted by the oldest articles first and can also be sorted by the newest articles, or by the articles that closest match the search terms. 5. Historically there was a tendency to describe people more formally, e.g. Mr. Yeats instead of William Butler Yeats. Initially, try to search by surname only and then refine the results. 1. To find an exact phrase place quotation marks around your search terms e.g. "George Bernard Shaw". 2. The archive will automatically return articles that include all of the search terms. 3. Place a plus (+) or a minus (-) sign in front of words to give them a higher or lower weighting. 4. The results can be sorted by the newest or oldest articles, or by the articles that closest match the search terms. 5. Search results can be refined by section, date or by inserting additional words into the relevant fields.

Search Tips

1. Event names may have been coined after the event took place, e.g. World War I was known as the Great War. Try to search using words that describe the event or that may have been used in reports.
2. To find an exact phrase place quotation marks around your search terms, e.g. "George Bernard Shaw".
3. The archive will automatically return articles that include all of the search terms.
4. The search results are automatically sorted by the oldest articles first and can also be sorted by the newest articles, or by the articles that closest match the search terms.
5. Historically there was a tendency to describe people more formally, e.g. Mr. Yeats instead of William Butler Yeats. Initially, try to search by surname only and then refine the results.

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