THE BBC’S ‘IRISH TROUBLES’: TELEVISION, CONFLICT AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Reviewed by Niall Meehan Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College, Dublin. Robert Savage has written a richly detailed history of the BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’, a story of how a sometimes-calculated self-censorship functioned before the British government made it official in 1988. Savage explains how, during the 1960s, BBC Northern Ireland news ... Read more

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