The Evening Telegraph was launched in 1871 by a former Irish nationalist Lord Mayor of Dublin Edmund Dwyer Gray.

It was particularly famous for the attention it paid to covering social events, and for its use of drawings as illustrations.

Leopold Bloom sells advertising for the Evening Telegraph in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

It closed in the same year as the main daily Nationalist newspaper, the Freeman's Journal.

It is unclear whether the elimination of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1918 general election, and the achievement of dominion status as opposed to the IPP’s desired home rule, undermined the need for the old Nationalist newspapers attached to a political order that had been swept away between 1916 and 1922.