Dublin Opinion

This was a monthly satirical magazine published in Dublin from 1922 to 1968. It was founded by cartoonists Arthur Booth and Charles E. Kelly and writer Tom Collins, (1894-1972) who met as amateur dramatists. Booth was its first editor and drew the covers. Its satire was gentle and political, trailing a middle path. The first issue, financed by a loan from a friend of Booth and published on 1 March 1922, had a print run of 3,000 and sold out, but the second issue sold poorly. From issue 3 it was however soon selling 40,000 copies a month. When Booth died of pneumonia in 1926, Kelly, Collins and Booth's father-in-law Major Robert J. Baker formed Dublin Opinion Ltd, and Collins and Kelly took over as editors, Kelly becoming the chief artist.

From a peak of 60,000 copies a month, sales began to decline in the mid-1960's. Kelly and Collins wound the magazine up in 1967 and sold it in 1968. It was relaunched under the new editorship but did not last.