Periodicals and Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland 2

A Variety of Voices

Felix M. Larkin, Mark O'Brien

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2022
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829147
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

Periodicals have been at the core of journalistic activity since before the foundation of the state but have remained an area long neglected within media history. This volume, featuring essays by leading media historians, presents an insight into recent periodicals research in Ireland, much of which has focused on the magazines produced by various interest groups, the relationship between culture and commerce, and how periodicals critiqued the national press. Alongside case studies of key periodicals such as Fortnight, In Dublin, Status, and the Phoenix, the volume also examines periodicals produced over the course of the twentieth century by religious bodies, the Irish-language lobby, the women's-rights movement, and the gay-rights campaign. Focusing on key periodicals, proprietors, editors, contributors, and controversies, it evaluates the contribution of periodical journalism to the ideas and debates that helped shape twentieth-century Ireland.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Titile page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• 1. ‘An extraordinarily clever journalist’: Arthur Griffith’s editorships, 1899-1919
• 2. An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae: ‘the turning of the tide'
• 3. Irish-Ireland and Catholic Whiggery: D.P Moran and The Leader
• 4. ‘Challenging the headship of man’: militant suffragism and the Irish Citizen
• 5. The worker, James Connolly’s ‘organ of the Irish working class’
• 6. ‘A tainted source’? The Irish Bulletin, 1919-21
• 7. In a ‘comity of cultures’: the rise and fall of the Irish Statesman, 1919-30
• 8. ‘Humour is the safety valve of a nation’: Dublin Opinion, 1922-68
• 9. ‘Where and what is Ireland?’: Fr Senan and the Capuchin Annual, 1930-54
• 10. Other voices: The Bell and documentary journalism
• 11. The Furrow: navigating the rapids, 1950-77
• 12. Hibernia: voices of dissent, 1968-80
• 13. Hot Press: ‘a tilt at all of these windmills’
• 14. ‘The passion of particularity’: Magill, 1977-90
• Index