Forth magazine

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Field	Value
title	forth
company	forth communications
total_circulation	40,000 per month
frequency	Daily
language	English
category	News and current affairs
editor	Jason Walsh
firstdate	2009
finaldate	2018
website	forth.ie
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Editors and contributors

forth was edited by Irish journalist Jason Walsh. Walsh has contributed to the Irish Times, the Irish Examiner, the Sunday Business Post, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, The Independent, the Christian Science Monitor, Magill, Village, Business and Finance, Wired, Mute, Rising East and the Dubliner.

Contributors included journalists Lenny Antonelli and Brendan O'Neill, free software activist Richard Stallman, economist Stephen Kinsella, former Sinn Féin councilor Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh and Gerard Casey.

Content

forth took a partisan left-libertarian stance on current affairs that was described as "sometimes offbeat, often original" by Irish journalist Gerard Cunnigham. The magazine criticized the 'lynching' of Jan Moir, a stance noted by The Guardian and criticized by The Independent newspapers. The magazine has also criticized Ireland's trade unions as timid and in decline, and argued that Trinity College Dublin should be demolished, prompting a response from Senator David Norris.

Alongside its traditional material, forth published a series of correspondences on various subjects called 'Back and Forth'.

References

References

1. [http://www.prlog.org/10395961-forward-thinking-on-the-web.html Forward Thinking On The Web]. PRLog (31 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
2. [http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/index_of_contributors/ forth: forward thinking from ireland]. Forth.ie (8 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
3. [https://archive.today/20130127051538/http://www.journalisted.com/jason-walsh Jason Walsh]. journalisted.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
4. [http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html Another Green World: October 2009]. Another-green-world.blogspot.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
5. [http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/about_forth/ forth: forward thinking from ireland]. Forth.ie (1 June 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
6. Cunningham, Gerard. (28 October 2009) [http://faduda.ie/?p=1920 Reading Matters » 200 Words]. Faduda.ie. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
7. [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/oct/31/the-power-of-twitter The power of tweets. From]. The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
8. [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-freedom-of-speech-is-fine-until-the-invective-is-against-you-1805247.html Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Freedom of speech is fine until the invective is against you – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Commentators]. The Independent (19 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
9. [http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/two_cheeks_of_the_same_arse/ forth: forward thinking from ireland]. Forth.ie. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
10. [http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/lets_demolish_dublin/ forth: forward thinking from ireland]. Forth.ie (27 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
11. [http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/dont_demolish_trinity/ forth: forward thinking from ireland]. Forth.ie (29 October 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.

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