McNicholas, A. 2000. Faith, fatherland and the politics of exile: the Irish press in mid-Victorian Britain. PhD thesis University of Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design https://doi.org/10.34737/944v7
| Title | Faith, fatherland and the politics of exile: the Irish press in mid-Victorian Britain |
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| Type | PhD thesis |
| Authors | McNicholas, A. |
| Abstract | The subject of this study is the attempt to establish a press amid the Irish immigrants in mid-Victorian England. There had long been a notable Irish contribution to English journalism, and the first Irish papers to be printed in England had been founded soon after the Act of Union. The press of the 1860s was to be different, however. Earlier papers had been aimed at a small, political elite but the massive immigration following the Famine meant that there was now, potentially, a large reading public. It was a public which was defined to a great extent by two ideas, nationality and religion-in the parlance of the time, faith and fatherland. These two elements crucially shaped the responses of both the migrants and of the wider English society to each other. Where Irish life in England was organised, it was Catholic and the secular, nationalist journalists of this study, wrote for a community and within a social organisation which was confessional. |
| Year | 2000 |
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| Publisher | University of Westminster |
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| Published | 2000 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/944v7 |