Newspapers: The Corke Chronicle (1763-1772)

This paper was first published in November 1763 by George Busteed in Castle Street, and from 1769 by his brother John Busteed (c.1748-1819), who also published a short-lived paper, the Hibernian Morning-Post (1775-76).  The paper took a strongly Protestant line. 

Special Collections holds 9 loose issues of The Corke Chronicle:

• 1770: No 1 (1 January), No 4 (11 January), No 10 (1 February), No 43 (28 May);
• 1771: No 89 (7 November), No 92 (18 November), No 93 (21 November), No 102 (23 December); 
• 1772: No 1 (2 January).

Other holdings

Cork City Libraries hold the only other extant issues of this paper, with a significant amount between 1765 and 1769.

The contents of the issues of The Corke Chronicle held in Special Collections have been listed and are available here:

A map of Cork City showing businesses advertised in The Corke Chronicle is viewable on the main Cork Newspapers page.