LEADER 04739oam 2200649I 450 001 9910966551203321 005 20251117090027.0 010 $a1-351-94636-6 010 $a1-315-25854-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315258546 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817210 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356381 035 $a(OCoLC)975222133 035 $a(OCoLC)988386903 035 $a(OCoLC)974711095 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB140062 035 $a(BIP)63377797 035 $a(BIP)7368215 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081444 100 $a20180706e20162003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDaniel O'Connell, the British press, and the Irish famine $ekilling remarks /$fLeslie A. Williams ; edited by William H.A. Williams 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (399 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aNineteenth Century Series 300 $aFirst published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0553-1 311 08$a1-351-94637-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. The times, O'Connell and Repeal, 1843 -- 2. Punch, 'Rint' and 'Repale', 1843 -- 3. Traversers and priests, 1844-1845 -- 4. 'The commissioner', 1845 -- 5. Imagining a famine-imaginary famine, 1845 -- 6. 'The battlefield of contending factions', January to June 1846 -- 7. Parsing Pharaoh's dream, July to December 1846 -- 8. 'A transition of great difficulty', January to March 1847 -- 9. The death of Daniel O'Connell, May 1847 -- 10. 'A conspiracy against life', June to December 1847 -- 11. Charles Trevelyan and the 'great opportunity', January 1848 -- 12. The uprising at Boulagh, 1848 -- 13. A dream of the future, 1849. 330 $aThrough an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?' The book explores the reportage of events and people in Ireland, focussing first on Daniel O'Connell, and then on debates about the seriousness of the Famine. Drawing upon such journals as The Times, The Observer, the Morning Chronicle, The Scotsman, the Manchester Guardian, the Illustrated London News, and Punch, Williams suggests how this reportage may have effected Britain's response to Ireland's tragedy. Continuing her survey of the press after the death of O'Connell, Leslie Williams demonstrates how the editors, writers and cartoonists who reported and commented on the growing crisis in peripheral Ireland drew upon a metropolitan mentality. In doing so, the press engaged in what Edward Said identifies as 'exteriority,' whereby reporters, cartoonists and illustrators, basing their viewpoints on their very status as outsiders, reflected the interests of metropolitan readers. Although this was overtly excused as an effort to reduce bias, stereotyping and historic enmity - much of unconscious - were deeply embedded in the language and images of the press. Williams argues that the biases in language and the presentation of information proved dangerous. She illustrates how David Spurr's categories or tropes of invalidation, debasement and negation are frequently exhibited in the reports, editorials and cartoons. However, drawing upon the communications theories of Gregory Bateson, Williams concludes that the real 'subject' of the British Press commentary on Ireland was Britain itself. Ireland was used as a negative mirror to reinforce Britain's own commitment to capitalist, industrial values at a time of great internal stress. 410 0$aNineteenth century (Aldershot, England) 606 $aFamines$zIreland$xPress coverage 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aIreland$xForeign public opinion, British 607 $aIreland$xHistory$yFamine, 1845-1852$xPress coverage 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zIreland 607 $aIreland$xRelations$zGreat Britain 615 0$aFamines$xPress coverage. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 676 $a941.5081/092 700 $aWilliams$b Leslie$f1941-2001.,$01868130 701 $aWilliams$b W. H. A$01809445 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966551203321 996 $aDaniel O'Connell, the British press, and the Irish famine$94475970 997 $aUNINA