Ireland and the New Journalism

237 Pages·2014·2.368 MB·English

by  Karen Steele, Michael de Nie (eds.)

Ireland and the New Journalism
Ne w Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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Ireland and the New Journalism
edited by Karen Steele and Michael de Nie (July 2014)
Ireland and the New
Journalism
Edited by
Karen Steele and Michael de Nie
IRELAND AND THE NEW JOURNALISM
Copyright © Karen Steele and Michael de Nie, 2014.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ireland and the new journalism / edited by Karen Steele and
Michael de Nie.
pages cm.—(New directions in Irish and Irish American literature)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Journalism—Ireland—History—19th century. 2. Journalism—
Ireland—History—20th century. 3. Press and politics—Ireland—
History—19th century. 4. Press and politics—Ireland—History—
20th century. 5. Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849–1912—
Criticism and interpretation. 6. Stead, W. T. (William Thomas),
1849–1912—Infl uence. I. Steele, Karen, 1965– editor of compilation.
II. Nie, Michael de. editor of compilation.
PN5144.I74 2014
072(cid:2).91509034—dc23 2014000701
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First edition: July 2014
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Contents
List of Figures v ii
Acknowledgments i x
Introduction 1
Karen Steele and Michael de Nie
Part I Irish Trauma and the Roots of
New Journalism
One Ghosts and Wires: The Telegraph and Irish Space 21
Christopher Morash
Two “Green Shoots” of the New Journalism in the
Freeman’s Journal , 1877–1890 3 5
Felix M. Larkin
Part II Democratizing Journalism
Three “ The Mechanics of How We Bear Witness”:
W. T. Stead’s Lessons for Ireland 5 9
Karen Steele
Four I rish Political Cartoons and the New Journalism 81
Elizabeth Tilley
Part III Transnational New Journalism
Five W. T. Stead, Liberal Imperialism, and Ireland 1 01
Michael de Nie
Six Political Cartoons as Visual Opinion Discourse:
The Rise and Fall of John Redmond in the
Irish World 119
Ún a N í Bhroim é il
Seven “A Great Deal of It Cannot Be Printed”:
W. T. Stead and E. J. Dillon 141
Kevin Rafter
vi Contents
Part IV New Journalism and Modernism
Eight “Those Who Create Themselves Wits at the Cost of
Feminine Delicacy”: James Joyce, W. T. Stead, and
the “Maiden Tribute” Sex Scandal 1 61
Margot Gayle Backus
Nine F rom Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh
and the Irish Review 181
Kurt Bullock
Ten The Practice of Papers: Irish Modernism, the New
Journalism, and Modern Periodical Studies 2 05
Paige Reynolds
List of Contributors 223
Index 2 25
Figures
4.1 Pat , December 27, 1879 8 6
4.2 Pat , Cover Image, n.d. 8 7
4.3 Pat , September 7, 1880 9 1
4.4 Pat , June 12, 1880 92
4.5 Pat , April 8, 1882 94
4.6 Pat , May 13, 1882 95
6.1 Irish World , April 8, 1905 122
6.2 Irish World , November 6, 1909 126
6.3 Irish World , March 11, 1911 127
6.4 Irish World , August 13, 1910 128
6.5 Irish World , June 5, 1915 131
6.6 Irish World , March 24, 1917 132
6.7 Irish World , October 9, 1915 133
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Acknowledgments
For kind permission to quote from unpublished manuscript sources,
the editors warmly thank the National Library of Ireland, the National
Library of Scotland, and Stanford Library.