Propaganda and Nation Building: Selling the Irish Free State

ISBN-13: 9780367870881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 229 str.

Kevin Hora

Opis

This book examines the origins of the Irish state in its first independent incarnation, the Irish Free State (1922-1937), exploring how contemporary public relations and propaganda techniques were used to construct an identity for a new state, which after enduring seven years of insurrection and civil war, became one of the most stable democraci

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Influences on the development of Free State propaganda

2 Funding propaganda

3 New media and propaganda

4 Propaganda and nation-building

5 Securing the state through propaganda

6 Commercial propaganda

7 Tourism propaganda

8 ‘A transient ornament of statehood’ – external affairs and diplomatic propaganda

Conclusion

O autorze

Kevin Hora lectures in public relations and public affairs in Dublin Institute of Technology and Rathmines College of Further Education, and is a member of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland.