The Construction of a Partitionist Mentality: Early Broadcasting in Ireland

Martin McLoone

The Construction of a Partitionist Mentality: Early Broadcasting in Ireland

Martin McLoone

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Abstract

A consideration of early broadcasting in Ireland, north and south, the article argues that both the BBC in Belfast and Radio Éireann in Dublin were established with a conservative and essentialist cultural agenda. However, broadcasting itself was not always amenable to such a limited cultural horizon and the early years are marked with moments of interesting controversy and contradiction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Broadcasting in a Divided Community: Seventy Years of the BBC in Northern Ireland
Editors	Martin McLoone
Publisher	Queen's University Belfast
Pages	20-34
ISBN (Print)	085389-620-8
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1996

Keywords

television history
BBC NI
Radio Éireann
essentialism
national identity

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The Construction of a Partitionist Mentality: Early Broadcasting in Ireland

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