Kevin Rafter is head of the department of film and media at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

• Preface James CurranIntroduction Kevin Rafter1 Journalism in Ireland: The Evolution of a Discipline Mark O’Brien2 How journalism became a profession Michael Foley3 Loyalty and Repeal: The Nation, 1842-6 M. L. Brillman4 Keeping an Eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle Matthew Potter5 The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan of The Times Maurice Walsh6 Mr Russell of The Times Peter Murtagh7 Emile Joseph Dillon - From our Special Correspondent Kevin Rafter8 The Irishness of Francis McCullagh John Horgan9 Patriotism, Professionalism and the Press: The Chicago Press & Irish Journalists, 1875-1900 Gillian O’Brien10 O’Brennan Abroad: An Irish Editor in London and America Anthony McNicholas11 Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic AssociationPaul Rouse12 Newspapers, Journals, and the Irish Revival Regina Uí Chollatáin13 Arthur Griffith and the Freeman’s Journal Felix M. Larkin 14 ‘The prose of logic and of scorn’: Arthur Griffith and Sinn Féin, 1906-1914 Ciara Meehan15 From the ‘Freeman’s General’ to the ‘dully expressed’: James Joyce and Journalism Terence Killeen16 Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process Ian Kenneally

"Rafter's 'Irish Journalism Before Independence'... is in a sense a map of a territory that remains only partly explored; and, like all such maps, it provides us with tantalising glimpses of why this might be so, and what remains to be done to fill in more of the outlines.""As an agenda-setting volume, 'Irish Journalism Before Independence' is timely...""Overall, the volume is an important, and useful, contribution to a burgeoning historiography of journalism.""each chapter is well researched and written, drawing our attention to a wide variety of individuals and incidences which history may well have forgotten if it weren’t for the work of the contributors....Students of history, media studies and journalism will find this book a useful resource in their studies, showing them the importance, albeit historical, of print media in the development of an independent Irish state."(Patricia Neville, University College Cork, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014)

Kevin Rafter is head of the department of film and media at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

• Preface James CurranIntroduction Kevin Rafter1 Journalism in Ireland: The Evolution of a Discipline Mark O’Brien2 How journalism became a profession Michael Foley3 Loyalty and Repeal: The Nation, 1842-6 M. L. Brillman4 Keeping an Eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle Matthew Potter5 The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan of The Times Maurice Walsh6 Mr Russell of The Times Peter Murtagh7 Emile Joseph Dillon - From our Special Correspondent Kevin Rafter8 The Irishness of Francis McCullagh John Horgan9 Patriotism, Professionalism and the Press: The Chicago Press & Irish Journalists, 1875-1900 Gillian O’Brien10 O’Brennan Abroad: An Irish Editor in London and America Anthony McNicholas11 Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic AssociationPaul Rouse12 Newspapers, Journals, and the Irish Revival Regina Uí Chollatáin13 Arthur Griffith and the Freeman’s Journal Felix M. Larkin 14 ‘The prose of logic and of scorn’: Arthur Griffith and Sinn Féin, 1906-1914 Ciara Meehan15 From the ‘Freeman’s General’ to the ‘dully expressed’: James Joyce and Journalism Terence Killeen16 Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process Ian Kenneally

"Rafter's 'Irish Journalism Before Independence'... is in a sense a map of a territory that remains only partly explored; and, like all such maps, it provides us with tantalising glimpses of why this might be so, and what remains to be done to fill in more of the outlines.""As an agenda-setting volume, 'Irish Journalism Before Independence' is timely...""Overall, the volume is an important, and useful, contribution to a burgeoning historiography of journalism.""each chapter is well researched and written, drawing our attention to a wide variety of individuals and incidences which history may well have forgotten if it weren’t for the work of the contributors....Students of history, media studies and journalism will find this book a useful resource in their studies, showing them the importance, albeit historical, of print media in the development of an independent Irish state."(Patricia Neville, University College Cork, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014)

Kevin Rafter is head of the department of film and media at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

• Preface James CurranIntroduction Kevin Rafter1 Journalism in Ireland: The Evolution of a Discipline Mark O’Brien2 How journalism became a profession Michael Foley3 Loyalty and Repeal: The Nation, 1842-6 M. L. Brillman4 Keeping an Eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle Matthew Potter5 The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan of The Times Maurice Walsh6 Mr Russell of The Times Peter Murtagh7 Emile Joseph Dillon - From our Special Correspondent Kevin Rafter8 The Irishness of Francis McCullagh John Horgan9 Patriotism, Professionalism and the Press: The Chicago Press & Irish Journalists, 1875-1900 Gillian O’Brien10 O’Brennan Abroad: An Irish Editor in London and America Anthony McNicholas11 Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic AssociationPaul Rouse12 Newspapers, Journals, and the Irish Revival Regina Uí Chollatáin13 Arthur Griffith and the Freeman’s Journal Felix M. Larkin 14 ‘The prose of logic and of scorn’: Arthur Griffith and Sinn Féin, 1906-1914 Ciara Meehan15 From the ‘Freeman’s General’ to the ‘dully expressed’: James Joyce and Journalism Terence Killeen16 Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process Ian Kenneally

"Rafter's 'Irish Journalism Before Independence'... is in a sense a map of a territory that remains only partly explored; and, like all such maps, it provides us with tantalising glimpses of why this might be so, and what remains to be done to fill in more of the outlines.""As an agenda-setting volume, 'Irish Journalism Before Independence' is timely...""Overall, the volume is an important, and useful, contribution to a burgeoning historiography of journalism.""each chapter is well researched and written, drawing our attention to a wide variety of individuals and incidences which history may well have forgotten if it weren’t for the work of the contributors....Students of history, media studies and journalism will find this book a useful resource in their studies, showing them the importance, albeit historical, of print media in the development of an independent Irish state."(Patricia Neville, University College Cork, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014)