The Roscommon Champion Newspaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Roscommon Champion and the 75th. Anniversary supplement issued on 28 February 2003.

 

Images are not to scale.

 

 

Alpha Group Christmas Card 2008 showing Castle Island, Lough Kee. From a watercolour by Dermot Cavanagh.

   The first issue of The Roscommon Champion newspaper was printed in Castle Street, Roscommon in February 1927. The proprietor was James Quigley. The paper was a family run business and many members of the Quigley family worked for it over the years.

In 1987 the Quigley family sold the paper to The Midland Tribune Group and Turners Printers. The paper moved from Castle Street to Church Street and with the issue of 18th. December 2007 changed from broadsheet to tabloid format. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newspaper and banner from 1959.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Newspaper and banner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                       The last broadsheet (11 December) and first tabloid issue (18 December 2007).

 

20th. September 1991 masthead.

 

The Roscommon Champion website is at www.roscommonchampion.ie

We have a small collection of The Roscommon Champion newspaper in our archive. We do not systematically collect every edition but we do keep special editions and masthead changes. We are particularly keen to get some early issues of this newspaper.

 

We have the following single issues: 01 August 1959, 28 February 2003, 10 May 2005, 14 February 2006, 26 September 2006, 30 January 2007, 11 December 2007 and 18 December 2007. We also have some loose pages from the 19th. May 1945 issue and the front page (only) of the issue for 20th. September 1991.

 

 

Receipt for The Roscommon Champion. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We would welcome additional information or photographs and all types of ephemera, including single issues of this newspaper. If you can help please contact us.

 

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