Ireland’s Own

If your looking for a bit of Irish nostalgia you will find it here for sure! My dad gets this from time to time but you are guaranteed that a copy of Ireland’s own will be at home around Christmas!
guess how long this magazine has been in print… go on… since 1902! how mad is that? that’s older than Irish independence! I looked up the magazine just there (to find out the correct date for all you lucky people who read my reviews) and i found another interesting fact, Ireland’s Own was designed to offer «wholesome Irish Catholic fare» to challenge the appearance of British newspapers in Ireland, how typically Irish is that? Brilliant!
Anyway, what can you find in it these days? well I’d say that it is pretty much the same as what you found in it in the early nineteen hundreds! puzzles, recipes, interesting stories, song lyrics, personal ads, prayers and a kids section are all regular features of this magazine!
I’m kinda looking forward to going home now to get my annual read of this magazine in!

This is such a quaint magazine. I came across a few issues in my parents’ house recently and I was fascinated by the ‘penfriends’ section. It’s a page or two of personal ads where men and women from around Ireland advertise themselves as looking for companionship and the like. There are a lot of older men on it searching for marriage — one was selling himself as having ‘average hair and average moustache’!!! It’s unintentionally amusing I must say — I got a great laugh reading it! I didn’t reply to any of course!