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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480970103321

Autore

Rafter Kevin

Titolo

Irish Journalism Before Independence : More a disease than a profession

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2016

ISBN

0-7190-9494-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

072.91509034

Soggetti

Journalism

Journalism - Ireland - History - 20th century

Journalism - Ireland - History - 19th century

History

Electronic books.

Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

14. 'The prose of logic and of scorn': Arthur Griffith and Sinn Fein,1906-1914: Ciara Meehan15. From the 'Freeman's General' to the 'dully expressed': James Joyce and journalism: Terence Killeen; 16. Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process: Ian Kenneally; Index.

7. E.J. Dillon:from our special correspondent: Kevin Rafter8. The Irishness of Francis McCullagh: John Horgan ; 9. Patriotism, professionalism and the press: the Chicago press and Irish journalists, 1875-1900: Gillian O'Brien; 10. O'Brennan abroad: an Irish editor in London and America: Anthony McNicholas; 11. Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic Association: Paul Rouse; 12. Newspapers, journals and the Irish revival: Regina Uí Chollatáin; 13. Arthur Griffith and the Freeman's Journal: Felix M. Larkin.

Irish journalism before independence: More a disease than a profession; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface: James Curran ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kevin Rafter; 1. Journalism in Ireland: the evolution of a discipline: Mark



O'Brien; 2. How journalism became a profession: Michael Foley; 3. Loyalty and Repeal: the Nation, 1842-46: M.L. Brillman ; 4. Keeping an eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle: Matthew Potter; 5. The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan: Maurice Walsh; 6. Mr Russell of The Times: Peter Murtagh.

Sommario/riassunto

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The pages of Irish Journalism Before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession are filled with the remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists. Sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism in this original and engaging volume. These leading media academics, historians and scholars join in what is a festschrift travelling the long Irish nineteenth century to 1922. Their stories, narratives and histories illustrate the emergence of Irish journalism chronicling t.