Abstract. This essay will examine expose of realities regarding poverty, immorality and sexual crime in Irish Free State by radical journal Honesty (1925-1931). Honesty was edited by socialist republican James W. Upton, a man with a longstanding commitment to rights of women and poor. Upton was by instinct anti-establishment in an era when country's religio-political leadership was insecure and keen to manage Free State's news agenda. Something they attempted in service of projecting what was viewed as an ideologically acceptable image of life in Free Sate, to both domestic and foreign audiences. Upton viewed this policy as a manifestation of social and political cant favoured by Free State's leadership, which was aided and abetted by, and gave succour to, hypocrisy of wider bourgeois Free State society. A coalition of forces, Upton reasoned, that damaged interests of most vulnerable sections of Irish society, in particular, nation's women and children living on or below breadline. However, notwithstanding it radicalism and reputation in Free State, Honesty has been largely lost to history of Irish journalism. Key Words. Irish Free State, Prostitution, Journalism, Sexual Crime, Women, Illegitimacy, Child Abuse, Poverty. Resumen. En este trabajo se examina como la revista Honesty (1925-1931) desvelo las verdades incomodas sobre pobreza, inmoralidad y delitos sexuales en los primeros anos del Estado Libre de Irlanda. El editor de la revista, James W. Upton, era un republicano de ideologia socialista en cuya trayectoria destacaba un firme compromiso con los derechos de las mujeres y de los menos favorecidos. Upton era por instinto antisistema, en una epoca en la que el liderazgo del pais adolecia de serias deficiencias. La clase dirigente mostraba un desmedido interes por controlar las noticias relacionadas con Irlanda y por proyectar, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, imagenes amables y positivas sobre el nuevo estado. Para Upton, esta actitud no era sino una muestra mas de la hipocresia reinante entre las elites del Estado Libre de Irlanda, las cuales encontraban un necesario apoyo entre un amplio sector de la burguesia. Para Upton, esta coalition de fuerzas actuaba en detrimento de los sectores mas debiles de la sociedad, especialmente aquellos que vivian por debajo del umbral de la pobreza. A pesar de su actitud critica con el poder y de la importante repercusion que tuvo en su epoca, Honesty apenas es tenida en cuenta en la historia del periodismo en Irlanda. Palabras clave. Estado Libre de Irlanda, prostitution, periodismo, delitos sexuales, mujeres, hijos ilegitimos, abusos a menores, pobreza. On 28th of February 1925 journal Honesty. A Weekly Journal of Independent Criticism commenced publishing and was to continue publication until 28th of February 1931. Edited by socialist-republican, James W. Upton, journal claimed lineage from a pre-Easter Rising publication of same name, which had published from October of 1915 to 25 April 1916. Upton's republican credentials were immaculate. A friend and commrade of many leading republicans of day, he was in possession of what Eithne MacDermott described as the ultimate legitimising symbol in republican gallery of iconography (1998: 1), having taken part in Easter Rising of 1916. This afforded Upton with a significant store of social and political capital which he was to deploy in service of marginalised, up until point that Honesty was forced to close. Honesty's closure resulted from undermining of its readership by his old commrade, Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail party machine, when Upton and Honesty were percieved as threatening de Valera's political ambition (Keating 2015: 92). Upton was born in Waterford in 1872 and came under influence of Fenian James O'Connor whilst a student at Mount Sion Christian Brothers school, where he also developed a lifelong passion for Gaelic Games. …