Belfast’s Republican Journal began its print run in 1829, and from its inception covered the news of Bayside. The paper’s archives, spanning 1829-1922 are available online and can be searched for keyword terms.
- The years 1829-1868 are available through the digital archive of the Belfast Free Library. (Note that the newspaper suspended publication between December 2, 1864 and July 20, 1866.)
- The years 1869-1922 are available through the Chronicling America project, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
In addition, selected Bayside related stories from the Republican Journal have been transcribed and are available using the links below:
- Selected articles from 1848 to 1900 in a single searchable file can be found here.
- Seventeen news articles from 1893 in a single searchable file can be found here.
To search within these two files, open the documents, press CTRL+F (Windows) or CMD+F (Mac), and enter your search terms into the search box that appears.
For more contemporary articles on Bayside, see In the News.