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The ''Sunday Independent'' is a broadsheet Sunday newspaper published in Ireland by Independent News & Media plc. It is the Sunday edition of the ''Irish Independent''. ==History== The ''Sunday Independent'' was first published in 1905 as the Sunday edition of the ''Irish Independent''.〔''The Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture'' Edited by W. J. McCormack. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 (pp. 304-5). ISBN 0-631-22817-9〕 Following the creation of the Irish Free State, the ''Sunday Independent'' followed its daily counterpart's political line by supporting Cumann na nGaedheal and its successor Fine Gael.〔 From the 1940s until 1970, the paper was run by Hector Legge (1901–1994). Legge's time at the paper was notable for the ''Sunday Independent'' in 1948 leaking the news that the Irish government were going to leave the British Commonwealth by repealing the External Relations Act.〔"Hector Legge" (Obituary) in ''The Times'', 11 November 1994.〕 Legge also published a series of articles by the writer Frank O'Connor (under the pseudonym "Ben Mayo") in the paper.〔James H. Matthews, ''Voices: a life of Frank O'Connor'', Atheneum, 1983 (pp. 196-7, 360). ISBN 0-689-11272-6〕 In the 1970s, under the editorship of Conor O'Brien, the ''Sunday Independent'' became known for a series of investigations by journalist Joe MacAnthony into the activities of the Irish Sweepstakes.〔''Irish Media: A Critical History since 1922'' by John Horgan, Routledge, 2001.(p.105). ISBN 0-415-21640-0〕 O'Brien was succeeded as editor in 1976 by Michael Hand.〔"Independent Newspapers' Appointments". ''Irish Independent'', 2 February 1976, (p.4). Retrieved 26 October 2011.〕〔(Obituary of Michael Hand ) by Alan Morgan. ''The Independent'', 12 July 1997. Retrieved 26 October 2011.〕 Aengus Fanning became editor following Hand's departure in 1984.〔Horgan, 2001 (p. 107).〕 Anne Harris succeeded her husband Aengus Fanning after his death in January 2012.〔("''Sunday Independent'' editor Aengus Fanning dies" ). ''RTÉ News'', 17 January 2012.〕〔(''Sunday Independent'' editor Anne Harris departs after final edition ) ''Irish Times'', 21 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.〕 On 20 December 2014, Harris ended her tenure as the ''Sunday Independent's'' editor;〔 at her going-away party, the marketing department of Independent News and Media gave her a painting of the number "30%" to commemorate the fact Harris had raised the newspaper's circulation to 30% of the Irish market.〔 Cormac Bourke, the former executive editor of the ''Irish Independent'', became the new editor of the ''Sunday Independent'' in January 2015.〔(IMN Unveils Sheahan and Bourke as new editors. ) ''Irish Times'', 9 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunday Independent (Ireland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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