[ecrea] New book: Irish journalism before independence

Irish journalism before independence
More a disease than a profession

Edited by Kevin Rafter

Manchester University Press

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 the evolution and development of the profession, and
the various challenges confronted by the first generation of modern 
journalists.
The profession?s past is framed by reference to its practitioners and their
practice. Readers are treated to studies of foreign correspondents, 
editorial
writers, provincial newspaper owners, sports journalists and the challenges
of minority language journalism.

The volume goes beyond Ireland to explore the work of Irish journalists 
abroad
and shows how the great political debates about Ireland?s place in the 
United
Kingdom served as a backdrop to newspaper publication in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.

In his preface Professor James Curran concludes that the volume ?advances
by leaps and bounds the history of the Irish press?.


Kevin Rafter is a senior lecturer in journalism and political communications
at Dublin City University. He is a former political correspondent and the
author of several books on Irish politics.


HOW TO ORDER
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Dr Kevin Rafter
Senior Lecturer - Journalism & Political Communication
Dublin City University

Address: School of Communications, DCU, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Personal Web Page: http://www.dcu.ie/info/staff_member.php?id_no=4132
Phone: +353 1 7005082



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