The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
	Notes
1 A new age
	New journalism
	Titles, politics, and circulation
	Journalists and journalistic life
	Representation and professionalism
	Notes
2 High dignity and low salaries
	The IJA and trade unionism
	The Irish Journalist and journalistic practices
	The Irish Journalist and trade unionism
	The 1916 Rising and the IJA
	Trade unionism and dissolution
	Notes
3 Free State – free press?
	Censorship of publications
	The government acts
	The Waterford Standard case
	Fallout and ‘the kissing case’
	Notes
4 Power in a union
	The NUJ and the Irish Press
	Journalism and the sexes
	The IJA and the Institute of Journalists
	The crisis of registration and the 1947 agreement
	Notes
5 A red republic
	The fear of communism
	The Guild of Irish Journalists
	An Glór
	A crowded field
	Two guilds
	Notes
6 Official Ireland
	The pre-television media landscape
	‘Seedy, scruffy creatures’
	Out of sight, out of mind
	Pushing boundaries
	Notes
7 The impact of television
	Clashes with government
	Television’s effect on print journalism
	Journalism and the Catholic Church
	The GAA: coverage and controversy
	A changing profession
	Notes
8 The Troubles and censorship
	Section 31
	Reporting the Troubles
	The chill factor
	Notes
9 Modernity comes knocking
	A changing media
	Campaigning journalism
	Reaction and retrenchment
	Notes
10 Lifting the lid
	A changing media landscape
	‘Where the Sweep Millions Go’
	Giving offence
	Notes
11 Spirit of the nation
	Telephone tapping
	‘Charlie Haughey’s money’
	‘Zero risk’
	Notes
12 An appalling vista
	Dishing the DIRT
	Law-and-order news
	Clerical errors
	The moral abyss
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Sources and select bibliography
	Interviews/ correspondence
	Archival sources
	Government publications
	Trade periodicals
	Newspapers and periodicals
	Academic journals
	Books
Index