Almost 70 years of editions of the Church of Ireland Gazette, the Church of Ireland’s weekly newspaper, have been published online for free by the Representative Church Body Library.
The editions date from March 1856, when the paper first appeared, to December 1923, after the Irish Free State was declared, and cover both modern Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Historian Dr Miriam Moffitt said: “The Gazette is wonderful because it provides not only an outline of the events that impacted on the Church over the last 150 years, but also because it gives us an insight into the attitudes of its readership.”
The Gazette ran birth, marriage and death notices relating to clergymen and their families, as well as news stories, columns and advertisements. Maybe you can find out more about events in your family's parish or other interesting snippets about their lives.
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