This work uses a representative sample of contemporary English
newspapers to examine press reporting of the Easter Rising in
Dublin, Ireland in 1916. It shows the extent to which the British
government reacted to public opinion and attempted its influence by
manipulating the flow of information to newspapers. Government
efforts to play down the rising as unrepresentative of Irish
constitutional nationalism were initially successful with its
portrayal in newspapers as a German-orchestrated plot aided by a
handful of radical extremists. However, government failure to
manage the media impact in England of the subsequent military
executions prompted powerful newspaper campaigns against the
process that reignited interest and coverage of the rising. The
opportunity for government to minimise the political repercussions
of the rising in England and in Ireland was forfeit.
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