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Death in every paragraph : journalism & the great Irish famine / Michael Foley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Famine folio seriesPublisher: Hamden, Connecticut : Quinnipiac University Press, [2015]Publisher: ©2015Description: 46 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780990468653
Other title:
  • Journalism & the great Irish famine
  • Journalism and the great Irish famine
Subject(s): Summary: The Great Famine had a huge impact on the development of journalism and the press, not only in Ireland but internationally. The scale and complexity of the catastrophe forced journalists to find new ways of reporting news, and develop new techniques of interrogation -- including narrating the stories of ordinary people. The work of Irish journalists attracted others from around the world, who travelled to Ireland to see for themselves how such a calamity could take place so close to the center of the world's greatest empire.
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General General ATU Mayo General Shelves 941.5081 FOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J170902

Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady.

"Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University" -- last page.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Great Famine had a huge impact on the development of journalism and the press, not only in Ireland but internationally. The scale and complexity of the catastrophe forced journalists to find new ways of reporting news, and develop new techniques of interrogation -- including narrating the stories of ordinary people. The work of Irish journalists attracted others from around the world, who travelled to Ireland to see for themselves how such a calamity could take place so close to the center of the world's greatest empire.

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