Newspaper strike: To tell the story of this edition of The Irish Field, we must first go back a week to the issue of Saturday June 26th 1965, Irish Sweeps Derby Day. The front page carries a box titled Notice To Our Readers. It states that: “The Irish Graphical Society has given notice of withdrawal of labour to commercial printing-houses and newspapers”, and that the strike is to begin on Friday July 2nd.

So instead of producing a paper on a Friday night, this week’s edition is printed on the Thursday, dated Friday, July 2nd 1965, and is on sale Friday morning.