The Anoraks Ireland Collection - Newsline Ireland 1989 & 1990

 

The depth and wealth of pirate radio archives that were part of the Anoraks Ireland Collection donated to the Irish Pirate Radio Archive at Dublin City University is diverse and important both to pirate radio history and social history. Much of the archives collected by Paul Davidson while he ran the fanzine Anoraks Ireland is focused on Ireland but some of his collection features UK pirate radio, European and American illegal broadcasting and offshore pirate stations. The publicity attached to these stations was conducted in a pre-internet era, when fans sent for ‘newsletters’ by using IRC’s, International Reply Coupons he assist with post.

Following the closure of Anoraks Ireland and the ending of Anoraks UK’s updates on radio in Ireland, a new information magazine was launched by Rodney Neill and known as Newsline Ireland. This came in 1989 after the introduction of the new Wireless Telegraphy Act that closed the majority of pirate radio stations across Ireland and their replacements which was independent legal commercial radio with licences awarded by the Independent Radio and Television Commission, now known as the BAI.

 

These are the five issues of the magazine from the Anorak’s Ireland Collection.