Daily Express

The Daily Express of Dublin (often referred to as the Dublin Daily Express, to distinguish it from the Daily Express of London) was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 to June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960. It was a unionist newspaper. From 1917, its title was the Daily Express and Irish Daily Mail. In its heyday, it had the highest circulation of any paper in Ireland. History It was founded by the Dublin solicitor John Robinson, who remained its proprietor until about 1889, when he sold it to James Poole Maunsell. In his Post Famine Ireland (2006), Desmond Keenan says of the newspaper: In 1858, Karl Marx, writing in the New York Tribune, called the paper "the Government organ":