Historical role of newspapers in Irish revolution studied at UCC

The historical force of newspapers and how their role in the Irish revolution has been underlined by a researcher at University College Cork.

Alan McCarthy says the media dimension of the troubles from 1916 to 1923 has often been overlooked by academic historians.

“They tend to view these papers as historical sources as opposed to the historical forces that they were,” he writes in a journal of postgraduate research at UCC.