Media Connections between Britain and Ireland

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).

• Introduction, 1. Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish networks of print and the cultural politics of needlework, 2. The convict Kirwan: Viewing the nineteenth-century press through the lens of an Irish murder trial, 3. Image wars: the Edwardian picture postcard and the construction of Irish identity in the early 1900s, 4. Scissors and Paste: Arthur Griffiths’s use of British and other media to circumvent censorship in Ireland 1914–15, 5. Fighting and writing: Journalists and the 1916 Easter Rising, 6. Censorship and suppression of the Irish provincial press, 1914–1921, 7. ‘A bit of news which you may, or may not, care to use’: The Beaverbrook-Healy friendship and British newspapers 1922–1931, 8. Tuned out? A study of RTÉ’s Radio 1 programmes Dear Frankie/Women Today and BBC 4’s Woman’s Hour, 9. Television and the decline of cinema-going in Northern Ireland, 1953–1963, 10. Memories of television in Ireland: separating media history from nation state, 11. Seamus O’Fawkes and other characters: The British tabloid cartoon coverage of the IRA campaign in England, 12. ‘More difficult from Dublin than from Dieppe’: Ireland and Britain in a European network of communication