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Northern Ireland, the Bbc, and Censorship in Thatcher''s Britain - 1979 199

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A study of how Thatcher's government tried to control the narrative of the Northern Ireland conflict in an effort to shape how 'the Troubles' were understood by regional, national, and international audiences, and exploring how Britain's status as a leading global democracy was tarnished by the imposition of censorship in the 1988 Broadcasting Ban.

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  • Introduction

  • 1: The Hunger Strikes

  • 2: The image of Northern Ireland, 'Britain's Wasteland'?

  • 3: NORAID and the Brighton Bomb

  • 4: The Edge of the Union; the Anglo-Irish Agreement and its Aftermath

  • 5: Routine chaos? Gibraltar and its Consequences

  • 6: The Broadcasting Ban

  • 7: The End of Censorship?



Über den Autor / die Autorin

Robert J Savage directs the Boston College Irish Studies Program and is a professor in the university's History Department. He has published a number of books and articles that explore contemporary Irish and British history including The BBC's Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland (2015), which was short listed for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Award, and A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 (2010), which won the James S. Donnelly Sr. Book Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. Savage has been awarded Visiting Fellowships at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin; at the University of Edinburgh, where he held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship; at Queen's University, Belfast; and at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Zusammenfassung

A study of how Thatcher's government tried to control the narrative of the Northern Ireland conflict in an effort to shape how 'the Troubles' were understood by regional, national, and international audiences, and exploring how Britain's status as a leading global democracy was tarnished by the imposition of censorship in the 1988 Broadcasting Ban.

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