The Advocate (Melbourne)
The Advocate was a weekly newspaper founded in Melbourne, Victoria in 1868 and published for the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne from 1919 to 1990.
History[]
The paper was founded in Melbourne in February 1868 by Samuel Vincent Winter, who was also a proprietor and editor of the Melbourne Herald, with assistance from Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the Very Rev. J. Dalton, S.J., the Rev. G. V. Barry, and Hon. Michael O'Grady, as an outlet for Irish Catholic news and opinions. A few years later his brother Joseph Winter took over management of The Advocate.[1]
In 1902 they imported a font of Gaelic type and were thus the first newspaper in Australia to print in Irish Gaelic. In March 1919 the paper was purchased from the Winter family by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and continued weekly publication until 1990.[2]
Archives[]
The Advocate has been digitized and made available online at Trove, a service of the National Library of Australia.
See also[]
Other Roman Catholic publications in Australia are:
- The Southern Cross (South Australia)
- The Record (Perth)
- The Catholic Leader (Brisbane)
- The Catholic Weekly (Sydney), previously The Freeman's Journal
William Ponsonby McMahon (c. 1851 – June 1933) was in 1900 or 1901 a founder of another Melbourne Catholic newspaper, the Tribune, and was its publisher and editor for 19 years.
Further reading[]
- Geoffrey Serle, 'Winter, Samuel Vincent (1843–1904)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Obituary". The Freeman's Journal. LV (3433). Sydney. 22 October 1904. p. 19. Retrieved 28 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Advocate". Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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