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This changed from 1784 when it passed to <a href="/wiki/Francis_Higgins_(1746%E2%80%931802)" title="Francis Higgins (1746–1802)">Francis Higgins</a> (better known as the "Sham Squire")<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and took a more pro-British and pro-administration view. In fact Francis Higgins is mentioned in the Secret Service Money Book as having betrayed <a href="/wiki/Lord_Edward_FitzGerald" title="Lord Edward FitzGerald">Lord Edward FitzGerald</a>. Higgins was paid £1,000 for information on FitzGerald's capture.<sup id="cite_ref-Thejournal_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thejournal-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voice_of_constitutional_nationalism">Voice of constitutional nationalism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Voice of constitutional nationalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 19th century it became more nationalist in tone, particularly under the control and inspiration of <a href="/wiki/John_Gray_(Irish_politician)" title="John Gray (Irish politician)">Sir John Gray</a> (1815–75). </p><p><i>The Journal</i>, as it was widely known as, was the leading newspaper in Ireland throughout the 19th century. Contemporary sources record it being read to the largely illiterate population by priests and local teachers gathering in homes. It was mentioned in contemporary literature and was seen as symbolising <a href="/wiki/Irish_newspapers" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish newspapers">Irish newspapers</a> for most of its time. By the 1880s it had become the primary media supporter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell" title="Charles Stewart Parnell">Charles Stewart Parnell</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Parliamentary_Party" title="Irish Parliamentary Party">Irish Parliamentary Party</a> (IPP). The weekend edition of the paper was known as <i><b>The Weekly Freeman</b></i>, which began featuring large format political cartoons in the 1870s.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was challenged on all sides by rivals. On the nationalist side some preferred <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nation_(Irish_newspaper)" title="The Nation (Irish newspaper)">The Nation</a></i> founded by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Osborne_Davis_(Irish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician)">Thomas Davis</a> while others, including radical supporters of Parnell, read the <i><a href="/wiki/United_Irishman" title="United Irishman">United Irishman</a></i>. The <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Ascendancy" title="Protestant Ascendancy">Anglo-Irish establishment</a> in contrast read the historically <a href="/wiki/Unionism_(Ireland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unionism (Ireland)">Irish unionist</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Times" title="The Irish Times">The Irish Times</a></i>. With the split in the IPP over Parnell's relationship with <a href="/wiki/Katharine_O%27Shea" title="Katharine O'Shea">Katharine O'Shea</a>, its readership split too. While <i>The Journal</i> in September 1891<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eventually went with the majority in <a href="/wiki/Irish_National_Federation" title="Irish National Federation">opposing Parnell</a>, a minority moved to read the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Irish_Independent" title="Daily Irish Independent">Daily Irish Independent</a></i>. It was also challenged from the turn of the century by <a href="/wiki/William_O%27Brien" title="William O'Brien">William O'Brien</a>'s <i>Irish People</i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Cork_Free_Press" title="Cork Free Press">Cork Free Press</a></i>. With <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sexton_(Irish_politician)" title="Thomas Sexton (Irish politician)">Thomas Sexton</a> becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors (1893–1911), the Journal languished under his spartanic management. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Superseded_by_the_Irish_Independent">Superseded by the <i>Irish Independent</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Superseded by the Irish Independent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The collapse of the IPP in 1918, and the electoral success of <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>, saw a more radical nationalism appear that increasingly was out of step with the moderation of the Journal. The <i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Independent" title="Irish Independent">Irish Independent</a></i>, the successor to the <i>Daily Irish Independent</i>, was more aggressively marketed. Just prior to the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Civil_War" title="Irish Civil War">Irish Civil War</a> in March 1922, the Freeman's Journal printing machinery was destroyed by <a href="/wiki/Anti-Treaty_IRA" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Treaty IRA">Anti-Treaty IRA</a> men under <a href="/wiki/Rory_O%27Connor_(Irish_republican)" title="Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)">Rory O'Connor</a> for its support of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty" title="Anglo-Irish Treaty">Anglo-Irish Treaty</a>. It did not resume publication until after the outbreak of civil war, when the Irish Free State re-asserted its authority over the country. </p><p><i>The Freeman's Journal</i> ceased publication in 1924, when it was merged with the <i><a href="/wiki/Irish_Independent" title="Irish Independent">Irish Independent</a></i>. Until the 1990s, the Irish Independent included the words 'Incorporating the Freeman's Journal' in its mast-head over its editorials. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Offices">Offices</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Offices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The newspaper's head office was located at 4-6 Prince Street North until its destruction during the Easter Rising of 1916. </p><p>After its destruction, the newspaper refurbished buildings at 6-8 Townsend Street incorporating the former Dublin Coffee Palace however these were ultimately ransacked by anti-treaty forces in March 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It also developed other alternative offices at 27 <a href="/wiki/Westmoreland_Street" title="Westmoreland Street">Westmoreland Street</a> in 1917 while carrying out extensive renovations there in 1921-22.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_fiction">In fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a> drew on his recollection of his visits to the Freeman’s office in 1909 in his novel <i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" title="Ulysses (novel)">Ulysses</a></i>. As the place of <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Bloom" title="Leopold Bloom">Leopold Bloom</a>'s employment, the depiction of the paper's offices in the Aeolus chapter has been deemed "an authentic portrait" at a time when the newspaper was "moribund – the <i>Irish Independent</i> having supplanted it as the most popular daily newspaper in Dublin." Its decline is reflected in "the anxious question posed in Aeolus about the Freeman’s editor, WH Brayden: 'But can he save the circulation?'"<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leading_proprietors,_editors_and_contributors"><span id="Leading_proprietors.2C_editors_and_contributors"></span>Leading proprietors, editors and contributors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Leading proprietors, editors and contributors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthias_McDonnell_Bodkin" title="Matthias McDonnell Bodkin">Matthias McDonnell Bodkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brooke_(writer)" title="Henry Brooke (writer)">Henry Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_%27Doc%27_Byrne" title="Edward 'Doc' Byrne">Edward 'Doc' Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_Gray" title="Wilson Gray">Wilson Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gray_(Irish_politician)" title="John Gray (Irish politician)">Sir John Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lucas_(politician)" title="Charles Lucas (politician)">Charles Lucas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Winder_Good" title="James Winder Good">James Winder Good</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_O%27Brien" title="William O'Brien">William O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sexton_(Irish_politician)" title="Thomas Sexton (Irish politician)">Thomas Sexton</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Freeman%27s_Journal&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="/wiki/The_Irish_Times" title="The Irish Times">The Irish Times</a></i> (1859–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Workers%27_Voice" title="The Irish Workers' Voice">The Irish Workers' Voice</a></i> (1931–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nation_(Irish_newspaper)" title="The Nation (Irish newspaper)">The Nation</a></i> (1842–1900)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_News_Letter" class="mw-redirect" title="The News Letter">The News Letter</a></i> (1737–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in_(newspaper)" title="Sinn Féin (newspaper)">Sinn Féin</a></i> (1906–1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> (1821–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Independent_(Ireland)" title="Sunday Independent (Ireland)">Sunday Independent</a></i> (1906–present)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunday_World_(1895%E2%80%9397)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sunday World (1895–97) (page does not 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News</a></i> (1892–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sligo_Champion" title="The Sligo Champion">The Sligo Champion</a></i> (1836–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tuam_Herald" title="The Tuam Herald">The Tuam Herald</a></i> (1837–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Western_People" title="Western People">Western People</a></i> (1883–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Argus_(Dundalk)" title="The Argus (Dundalk)">The Argus</a></i> (1830–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Drogheda_Independent" title="Drogheda Independent">Drogheda Independent</a></i> (1884–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dublin_Evening_Mail" title="Dublin Evening Mail">Dublin Evening Mail</a></i> (1823–1962)</li> <li><i><a 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Independent">Tullamore & King's Co. Independent</a></i> (1894–1920)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Westmeath_Examiner" title="Westmeath Examiner">Westmeath Examiner</a></i> (1882–present)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Clare_Champion" title="The Clare Champion">The Clare Champion</a></i> (1903–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cork_Constitution_(newspaper)" title="Cork Constitution (newspaper)"><i>Cork Advertiser</i>/<i>Cork Constitution</i></a> (1799–1824)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cork_Free_Press" title="Cork Free Press">Cork Free Press</a></i> (1928<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Chronicle">Newtownards Chronicle</a></i> (1873–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Whig" title="Northern Whig"><i>Northern Whig</i>/<i>Northern Whig and Belfast Post</i></a> (1832–1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strabane_Chronicle" title="Strabane Chronicle">Strabane Chronicle</a></i> (1896–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Constitution" title="Tyrone Constitution">Tyrone Constitution</a></i> (1844–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Gazette" title="Ulster Gazette">Ulster Gazette</a></i> (1844–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Herald" title="Ulster Herald">Ulster Herald</a></i> (1901–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulsterman_(newspaper)" title="Ulsterman (newspaper)">Ulsterman</a></i> (1852–1859)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ireland%27s_Saturday_Night" title="Ireland's Saturday Night"><i>Ulster Saturday Night</i>/<i>Ireland's Saturday Night</i></a> (1894–2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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