United Irishman (1848 newspaper)

Inactive Defunct The United Irishman was a nationalist weekly newspaper published by John Mitchel in Dublin in 1848.

From his office at 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, he printed and published the first issue of the United Irishman on 12 February 1848.

In the Commission Court on 22 May, after the Clerk of the Crown queried the foreman of the jury who said the bill against Mitchel was for "Sedition".

On Friday, 26 May, Mitchel was found guilty and was the following day sentenced to transportation for 14 years to Van Diemen's Land.

In June, Martin printed and published The Irish Felon, a successor newspaper from the same Dublin office, honouring subscriptions to its predecessor.