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

• 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 ?

"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 Ui Chollatain, Senior Lecturer of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin, Ireland