The Citizen (Chicago, Ill.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
690 issues from 1882 to 1897, published in Chicago, Illinois, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Citizen was founded by John F. Finerty in Chicago, Illinois in 1882. Published weekly, the Citizen advocated for the social and political advancement of the Irish people in America. Finerty declared that the Citizen would advocate for the independence of Ireland from British rule by any means necessary. The masthead announces this advocacy: “Europe, not England, is the Mother Country of America.”
John F. Finerty was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1846. He fled to the United States in 1864 to avoid arrest for his ties to Irish nationalist groups and the National Brotherhood of St. Patrick. In New York, Finnerty enlisted in a volunteer regiment, and then, in 1866, Finerty became a war correspondent for several Chicago newspapers, including the Chicago Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Times. His reporting took him to the Western territories and Mexico where he covered conflict between white settlers and Native tribes. He settled in Chicago, and began publishing the Chicago Citizen, and served as its editor until his death on June 13, 1908. In his final decades, he also served as the first president of the United Irish League of America.
After the death of Finerty in 1908, his wife and son took over as editors of the Citizen until April 1909, when John P. Sutton became editor. After Sutton, the paper had a succession of editors. At times, the paper boasted being the “official newspaper of the A.O.H. [Ancient Order of the Hibernians] of Illinois and the United Irish…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress