This paper was founded in 1807 as The Southern Reporter, becoming The Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier in 1819. It was initially produced weekly, rising to thrice-weekly by 1813, and finally published as a daily paper between 1855 and its demise in 1873. Publishers over this period included Charles McCarthy (1812), W. Dunne (1823), Redmond O'Driscoll (1839) Gerald Fitzgibbon (1845) and Felix Mullan (1855).
Special Collections holds two bound volumes of The Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier for 1824-1825 and for 1826-1827. The first volume is also available on microfilm, as are 1823, 1828-1829, 1831-1832, 1838-1854 and 1859.
Other holdings
The largest collections of this paper are held in the National Library of Ireland and at the British Library. Only a handful of issues survive for the period before 1817. The years 1823 and 1825-1870 are available on the (for-pay) British Newspaper Archive.
