Media Connections between Britain and Ireland

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.

Auteur

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).

Contenu

Introduction * Mark O'Brien

• 1. Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish networks of print and the cultural politics of needlework * Mark W. Turner
• 2. The convict Kirwan: viewing the nineteenth-century press through the lens of an Irish murder trial * Abigail Rieley
• 3. Image wars: the Edwardian picture postcard and the construction of Irish identity in the early 1900s * Ann Wilson
• 4. Scissors and Paste: Arthur Griffiths's use of British and other media to circumvent censorship in Ireland 1914-15 * Colum Kenny
• 5. Fighting and writing: journalists and the 1916 Easter Rising * Mark O'Brien
• 6. Censorship and suppression of the Irish provincial press, 1914-1921 * Christopher Doughan
• 7. 'A bit of news which you may, or may not, care to use': the Beaverbrook-Healy friendship and British newspapers 1922-1931 * Elspeth Payne
• 8. Tuned out? A study of RTÉ's radio one programmes Dear Frankie/Women Today and BBC 4's Woman's Hour * Finola Doyle-O'Neill
• 9. Television and the decline of cinema-going in Northern Ireland, 1953-1963 * Sam Manning
• 10. Memories of television in Ireland: separating media history from nation state * Edward Brennan
• 11. Seamus O'Fawkes and other characters: the British tabloid cartoon coverage of the IRA campaign in England * Roseanna Doughty
• 12. 'More difficult from Dublin than from Dieppe': Ireland and Britain in a European network of communication Yann Ciarán Ryan