This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

"Showcasing the emergence of new media practices from the pre-revival period to the development of modernism, this thematically-divided collection presents a new understanding of a cultural and political 'revolution' on a wide range of media platforms. A pioneering work in the study of Irish journalism, it highlights the diversity of reportage and review while underpinning the links created by nineteenth-century innovations in technology, particularly those that gave rise to new forms of mass communication. This timely study of a new dawn in Irish journalism is valuable in assessing the role of the press; it also provides valuable insights on the role of journalism and the journalist for media practitioners and scholars in the twenty-first century." - Regina Uí Chollatáin, Senior Lecturer of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin, Ireland

Autorentext
Karen Steele is Chair and Professor of English at Texas Christian University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction; Karen Steele and Michael de Nie PART I: IRISH TRAUMA AND THE ROOTS OF NEW JOURNALISM 1. Ghosts and Wires: The Telegraph and Irish Space; Christopher Morash 2. 'Green Shoots' of the New Journalism in the Freeman's Journal , 1878-1890; Felix M. Larkin PART II: DEMOCRATIZING JOURNALISM 3. 'The Mechanics of How We Bear Witness': W. T. Stead's Lessons for Ireland; Karen Steele 4. Stead's Lessons for Ireland Irish Political Cartoons and the New Journalism; Elizabeth Tilley PART III: TRANSNATIONAL NEW JOURNALISM 5. W. T. Stead, Liberal Imperialism, and Ireland; Michael de Nie 6. Political Cartoons as Visual Opinion Discourse: The Rise and Fall of John Redmond in the Irish World ; Úna Ní Bhroiméil 7. 'A Great Deal Cannot Be Printed': W. T. Stead, E. J. Dillon, and Leo Tolstoy; Kevin Rafter PART IV: NEW JOURNALISM AND MODERNISM 8. 'Those Who Create Themselves Wits at the Cost of Feminine Delicacy': James Joyce, W. T. Stead, and the 'Maiden Tribute' Sex Scandal; Margot Gayle Backus 9. From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review ; Kurt Bullock 10. Irish Modernism, the New Journalism, and Modern Periodical Studies; Paige Reynolds ?