Richard C. Allen is a Visiting Fellow in History at Newcastle University, UK and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra. Felix M. Larkin is a historian and retired public servant. A former chair of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland, his publications include Terror and discord: The Shemus cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 (Dublin, 2009) and Living with history: occasional writings (Dublin, 2021). Oliver O’Hanlon is currently working as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of French at University College Cork (UCC). Aoife Whelan is Acting Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin (UCD) where she lectures in Nua-Ghaeilge and Irish Studies.

• Acknowledgements - Introduction: Freedom of Speech in the Press - Felix M. Larkin, with Richard C. Allen, Oliver O’Hanlon & Aoife Whelan: The First Casualty When War Comes is Caricature - Andres Strobl: The Darkening of the City of Light: The Irish Nationalist Press and Coverage of the Paris Commune, 1871 - Michael Foley: Art O’Brien: Ireland’s Publicity Man in London during the War of Independence - Oliver O'Hanlon: The Shemus Cartoons: ‘No Uncertain Voice’ in a Time of Conflict in Ireland, 1920–4 - Felix M. Larkin: Art and Politics: Constance Markievicz’s Civil War Cartoons - Claire Dubois: Poblacht na hÉireann: Censorship and the Irish Civil War - Claire Guerin: Muzzling the ‘Munster Republic’: Press Control and Propaganda in the six counties of Munster, 1922-23 - Alan McCarthy: ‘Have the Children of Bilbao Fallen into the Hands of Friends or Foes?’ The Press Coverage of Basque Child Refugees in Ireland - William Burton: ‘Ireland in a Warring Europe’: Maurice Walsh, Novelist, and the Politics of Neutrality - Richard C. Allen: Press Censorship in Northern Ireland during the Second World War: The Cases of the Derry Journal and the Ulster Protestant - Conor Campbell: Conflict in translation? Narrating Northern Ireland in the French press during the 'Troubles' - Karine Deslandes: Cultures in Conflict: Breandán Ó hEithir’s Gaelic Columns on Europe - Aiofe Whelan: Notes on Contributors