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This book examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland, specifically the central role played by print and broadcast media in communicating political, cultural and social differences and similarities between the two islands.
List of contents
Introduction, 1. Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish networks of print and the cultural politics of needlework, 2. The convict Kirwan: Viewing the nineteenth-century press through the lens of an Irish murder trial, 3. Image wars: the Edwardian picture postcard and the construction of Irish identity in the early 1900s, 4.
Scissors and Paste: Arthur Griffiths's use of British and other media to circumvent censorship in Ireland 1914-15, 5. Fighting and writing: Journalists and the 1916 Easter Rising, 6. Censorship and suppression of the Irish provincial press, 1914-1921, 7. 'A bit of news which you may, or may not, care to use': The Beaverbrook-Healy friendship and British newspapers 1922-1931, 8. Tuned out? A study of RTÉ's Radio 1 programmes
Dear Frankie/Women Today and BBC 4's
Woman's Hour, 9. Television and the decline of cinema-going in Northern Ireland, 1953-1963, 10. Memories of television in Ireland: separating media history from nation state, 11. Seamus O'Fawkes and other characters: The British tabloid cartoon coverage of the IRA campaign in England, 12. 'More difficult from Dublin than from Dieppe': Ireland and Britain in a European network of communication
About the author
Mark O'Brien is Associate Professor of Journalism History at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is the author of
The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland (2017);
The Irish Times: A History (2008); and
De Valera, Fianna Fáil and the Irish Press: The Truth in the News (2001).
Summary
This book examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland, specifically the central role played by print and broadcast media in communicating political, cultural and social differences and similarities between the two islands.
