The Irish War of Independence, which lasted from January 1919 to July 1921, consumed gallons of newspaper ink in newspapers all around the world. During that time, certain significant events caused the focus to be amplified. One of those events was the Burning of Cork, which happened on the night of 11 December 1920. I have just written a piece for the RTÉ Brainstorm website about French press coverage of the Burning of Cork. Read it here.
The newspaper that is mentioned in the article on Brainstorm is L'Œuvre. The paper ran from 1904 until 1944 and during those years the paper's ideology altered radically from being non-conformist in the early years, to being a radical republican and pacifist paper in the inter-war years, to ultimately adopting a collaborationist stance during the Second World War. It has been digitised by the French National Library (BnF) and you can search through the archives from 1915 to 1944 on their digital website, Gallica. See here for more.
If you want to find out more about the Burning of Cork, there is a podcast available on the RTÉ 'Documentary on One' radio programme website. It was made in 1960 and includes interviews with people who witnessed the event that took place on 11 December 1920. It lasts for 29.40 mins and you can listen to it here. There is also a shorter RTÉ radio clip (4.26 mins) on the Burning of Cork available. It was made by Myles Dungan and you can listen to it here.
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