The Cork Examiner was founded in 1841 by John Francis Maguire (1815-1872), Mayor of Cork in 1853, and later MP for the city from 1865 until his death. It was established as an organ to promote the actions of Daniel O'Connell and the Repeal Movement, and also strongly supported the work of Fr Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), the temperance reformer.
After Maguire's death, the paper was taken over by its editor, Kerryman Thomas Crosbie (c.1827-1899), whose descendants owned the paper until 2017. In the twentieth century, it became the main newspaper of the city, though it was rebranded as a national title, the Irish Examiner, in 1996.
Link to the paper's website.
Special Collections holds microfilm copies of The Cork Examiner for 1859-1863. The complete run of the paper is available online via the Irish Newspaper Archive.
Coughlan, Stephen. Picture that : a century of Cork memories. Cork : Cork Examiner Office, 1985.
___________________. Picture that again. Cork : Cork Examiner Office, 1986.
Jones, Siobhán. Polarised media : the Cork Examiner and Cork Constitution of the 1890s. M.A. thesis, University College, Cork, 2002.
Kearney, Anne. Remember when : pictures from the Irish examiner archive. Cork : Collins Press, 2010.
Kenneally, Ian. "Reports from a 'Bleeding Ireland': the Cork Examiner during the Irish war of independence," Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 108 (2003): 93-104.
O'Driscoll, Des. Irish Examiner : 100 years of news. Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, in association with the Irish Examiner, 2005.
John Francis Maguire (1815-1872), watercolour over pencil with touches of gum arabic by Cork artist Daniel Maclise (1806-1870). Public domain image.
See Jones, Stephanie P. "John Francis Maguire," Dictionary of Irish Biography.
