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

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 storie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foley, Michael (Correspondent)
Corporate Author: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, [2015]
Series:Famine folio series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Press history & an Irish peasant
  • Evangelicalism & humanism
  • Press developments in the 1840s
  • County Cork: a case study
  • Conclusion.