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.
There have been many fan
organizations for pirate radio across the world and here is one of the newsletters
from Free Radio Service which not only broadcast pirate news on shortwave but
also produced this newsletter. That's followed by a Radio Quatro Fact Sheet, the history of Radio Titanic and 'Sounds Alternative' (Not to be confused with a magazine of a similar name produced by the Free Radio Campaign Ireland)
