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Death in Every Paragraph - Journalism and the Great Irish Famine (Paperback)
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Death in Every Paragraph - Journalism and the Great Irish Famine (Paperback)
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Loot Price R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes
Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and
researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of
the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic
catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are
interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in
Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history,
art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political
economy, literature and music. Had the Great Famine not occurred,
newspapers would still have gone through massive changes in the
nineteenth century, precipitated by industrialization and
urbanisation. But the Famine did take place, and the ways Irish
journalists found to tell the story of unprecedented horror
conditioned the evolution of journalism, not alone in Ireland, but
abroad. The scale and complexity of the catastrophe forced
journalists to find new ways of reporting news, to develop new
techniques of interrogation, including the narration of the stories
of ordinary people, rather than just reporting the speeches of
important men.Whatever the political perspective of the journalist,
the ideologies of his readers had to be taken into account,
requiring him to develop new writing skills - forensic, contextual
and emotional - that explained the Famine to the rest of the world.
The stories that appeared in local Irish newspapers were often
reprinted not only in the newspapers of Dublin, but London and
other major cities, as far as America and Australia. It was the
work of journalists that attracted other journalists from around
the world who wanted to see for themselves how such a calamity
could take place so close to the centre of the world's greatest
empire. The Great Irish Famine was the worst humanitarian disaster
of the nineteenth century and how it was reported by the press
established many of the norms of disaster coverage to this day.
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