{"product_id":"irish-journalism-before-independence-9780719084515","title":"Irish Journalism Before Independence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 min\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverall, the volume is an important, and useful, contribution to a burgeoning historiography of journalism. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface James Curran\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Kevin Rafter\u003cbr\u003e1 Journalism in Ireland: The Evolution of a Discipline Mark O’Brien\u003cbr\u003e2 How journalism became a profession Michael Foley\u003cbr\u003e3 Loyalty and Repeal: The Nation, 1842-6 M. L. Brillman\u003cbr\u003e4 Keeping an Eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle Matthew Potter\u003cbr\u003e5 The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan of The Times Maurice Walsh\u003cbr\u003e6 Mr Russell of The Times Peter Murtagh\u003cbr\u003e7 Emile Joseph Dillon - From our Special Correspondent Kevin Rafter\u003cbr\u003e8 The Irishness of Francis McCullagh John Horgan\u003cbr\u003e9 Patriotism, Professionalism and the Press: The Chicago Press \u0026amp; Irish Journalists, 1875-1900 Gillian O’Brien\u003cbr\u003e10 O’Brennan Abroad: An Irish Editor in London and America Anthony McNicholas\u003cbr\u003e11 Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic Association\u003cbr\u003ePaul Rouse\u003cbr\u003e12 Newspapers, Journals, and the Irish Revival Regina Uí Chollatáin\u003cbr\u003e13 Arthur Griffith and the Freeman’s Journal Felix M. Larkin \u003cbr\u003e14 ‘The prose of logic and of scorn’: Arthur Griffith and Sinn Féin, 1906-1914 Ciara Meehan\u003cbr\u003e15 From the ‘Freeman’s General’ to the ‘dully expressed’: James Joyce and Journalism Terence Killeen\u003cbr\u003e16 Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process Ian Kenneally\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037331489111,"sku":"9780719084515","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719084515.jpg?v=1750935329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/irish-journalism-before-independence-9780719084515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}