Mr. Parnell's Rottweiler
Subtitle: censorship and the United Ireland Newspaper, 1881-1891
By: Myles Dungan
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sallins, Co. Kildare
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780716532330
Subjects: Freedom of the press; History
Description: Analysis of the contest between Irish nationalist newspapers and the British government during the riotous decade of the 1880s--focusing in particular on the Parnellite newspaper United Ireland. Dungan examines how the British government made extensive use of censorship to combat that newspaper's campaign and he draws on fascinating archival records which suggest that United Ireland itself may have engaged in similar censorial practices against rival organisations which espoused views at variance to its own.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An insurrection in print; title: Enforcing silence - Suppressing the 'Journalism of Murder'; title: 'Accusing spirits'; title: The Dublin 'Scandals'; title: Sisyphus Agonistes; title: 'Pigottism and crime'; title: Quis custodet Ipsos Custodes; title: Felo de se.