New Zealand Tablet
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The Tablet was founded by Patrick Moran, the first Catholic bishop of Dunedin. Moran was an articulate but vitriolic polemicist on behalf of Irish Catholics. His outspoken criticism of the government – over the secularisation of education, which he saw as part of an international conspiracy against the Church, and the failure to fund Catholic schools – attracted national attention but alienated many, including the majority of the press. The Tablet was established to provide him with an alternative means to express his views; Moran often edited the paper and was a regular contributor to it.
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Region: National
Also published as: Tablet
Available online: 3 May 1873 - 30 December 1909 (1913 issues)
