[ecrea] Independent Newspapers: A History

Call for contributors


Title:               Independent Newspapers: A History
Editors:          Mark OBrien & Kevin Rafter

Submissions are invited for a new edited 
publication that will provide a historical 
perspective on the relationship between 
Independent Newspapers and Irish society over the last one hundred years.

The book is intended as a forum for scholarly 
work of both breadth and depth and will fill a 
significant gap in the history of the Irish media 
while providing an insight into the world of 
journalism at the most controversial  and 
successful  media organisation in Ireland.

Proposals are welcomed for chapters in areas not 
exclusively confined to the following areas: the 
providence of the Independent titles from the 
Irish Parliamentary Party in the late nineteenth 
century; the life and career of William Martin 
Murphy; Independent Newspapers and the birth of 
the Irish State; the Emergency and Censorship; 
Independent Newspapers and aspects of Irish 
society in post-World War II period; the life and 
newspaper career of Tony OReilly; the 
Sweepstakes controversy; Reportage of Northern 
Ireland; Independent Newspapers and aspects of 
Irish society in the 1970s and 1980s; the role of 
Tony OReilly as businessman and newspaper 
proprietor; the business of newspapers: the 
dominant role of Independent Newspapers in the 
Irish market and its impact on the Irish Press 
Group and the stake in the Sunday Tribune; 
Independent Newspapers as a global media 
organisation; the evolution and influence of the 
Sunday Independent; the emergence of Denis 
OBrien as a significant stakeholder at a time of 
structural change in the newspaper industry.

Suggestions and topics outside the above list are 
welcomed. Accepted chapters will be peer-reviewed 
and will be subjected to a submission date of the end May 2011.

The book will be edited by Mark OBrien and Kevin 
Rafter from the School of Communications at 
Dublin City University.  The editors are 
currently in discussions with an academic 
publisher with an expected publication date of early 2012.

Proposals for chapters  to include an abstract 
of approximately 250 words  should be sent by email to:

Dr Mark OBrien and Dr Kevin Rafter
Email: 
<mailto:(mark.obrien /at/ dcu.ie)>(mark.obrien /at/ dcu.ie) and 
<mailto:(kevin.rafter /at/ dcu.ie)>(kevin.rafter /at/ dcu.ie)

Deadline for proposal submission:  Friday 15 October 2010.


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