Ireland and the First Media War: Digestible, Cultural Engagements of the Crimean War 1854-6
Journal: Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Year: 2018

The Crimean War was the first ‘media war:’ an international conflict experienced, not simply through the press and journals, but through a variety of ‘cultural dimensions,’ including poems and ballads, and not after events had transpired but often during their occurrence. Yet its cultural historiography remains heavily Anglo- (and London) centric, despite the war culturally impacting the entire United Kingdom. Within that Anglophonic Ireland’s popular or public response to the conflict was a mix