A History of the Media in Ireland by Christopher Morash
From the first book printed in Ireland in the sixteenth century, to the globalised digital media culture of today, Christopher Morash traces the history of forms of communication in Ireland over the past four centuries: the vigorous newspaper and pamphlet culture of the eighteenth century, the spread of popular literacy in the nineteenth century, and the impact of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, cinema and radio, which arrived in Ireland just as the Irish Free State came into being. Morash picks out specific events for detailed analysis, such as the first radio broadcast, during the 1916 Rising, or the Live Aid concert in 1985. This book breaks ground within Irish studies. Its accessible narrative explains how Ireland developed into the modern, globally interconnected, economy of today. This is an essential and hugely informative read for anyone interested in Irish cultural history.Christopher Morash is a Senior Professor in English at the Maynooth campus of the National University of Ireland. He has written extensively on Irish theatre and cultural studies in Ireland. He is the author of Writing the Irish Famine (1995) and the Encyclopaedia of Ireland's theatre section Consultant-Editor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107406568 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107406560 |
| Title | A History of the Media in Ireland |
| Author | Christopher Morash |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2012-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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