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The Bbc's 'Irish Troubles': Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland

The Bbc's 'Irish Troubles': Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland

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ISBN10: 152611688X
ISBN13: 9781526116888
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Mar 16 2017
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. It focuses on the BBC and considers how its broadcasts complicated the 'Troubles' by challenging decisions, policies and tactics developed by governments trying to defeat a stubborn insurgency that threatened national security.

The book uses highly original sources to consider how the BBC upset the efforts of a number of governments to control the narrative of a conflict that claimed over 3,500 lives and caused deep emotional scarring to thousands of people. Using recently released archival material from the BBC and a variety of government archives, the book addresses the contentious relationship between broadcasting officials, politicians, the army, police and civil service from the outbreak of violence throughout the 1980s.

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