Document Type
Book
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Journalism, History
Abstract
It is a truism to say that the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852 brought enormous changes to Ireland. The impact of massive emigration, death and suffering of so many people changed Ireland and marks the separation from the 18th century from modernity. It was also a period of change for the press, whose journalists had to find ways to tell the story of the famine. This work, using the three Cork newspapers as its case study, argues that the methods developed in the late 1840s laid down the basis for disaster coverage to this day.
Recommended Citation
Foley, M.J. (2015). Death in Every Paragraph: Journalism and the Great Irish Famine Connecticut: Quinnipiac University Press/ Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
Publication Details
Originally published for Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, copyright 2015. Reprinted with permission.