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Methodist Church in Ireland Newsprint Digitisation.

The Methodist Historical Society (MHSI), nearing its own centenary in 2026, set a goal of providing access to a complete run of over 150 years of Irish Methodist periodicals dating from 1859 to the present.

We are delighted that digitisation of the weekly Christian Advocates (1883-1923) and the Irish Christian Advocates (1924-1971) were completed during 2021 and by the end of March 2022 the earlier monthly Irish Evangelists (1859-1883) and later monthly Methodist Newsletters (1972-2015) were added to the collection. Most recently, at the beginning of October 2024, with the kind permission of the Methodist Newsletter, the years 2016-2020 have been included. These scanned and searchable issues have been uploaded and are available online through the search engine: https://esearch.informa.ie/mhsi/

This project, at an total cost of approximately £36,500, has been made possible by initially drawing on MHSI’s own funds and through generous donations from Society members and friends. The programme received a considerable boost during 2021 when the Society was awarded a generous grant of €15,000 from the Irish Heritage Grant Scheme, for which it is most grateful. This grant made possible the scanning of the Irish Christian Advocate (1924-1971) and the Methodist Newsletter (1973-2015) elements of the project.

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In addition to the initial cost of digitization the Society pays €1,750 per year to to maintain this digitable archive online, allowing a worldwide audience to view and search it using any name, place, or other search term.