This is the first in a series of dissertations tracing the birth and development of Irish radio in the period 1893 to the present day. I began this research during my undergraduate studies at Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick in 2010 and continue to work on the project. I am a student of Irish History and Media and have spent many years researching this project because I believe that this necessary Historical research and analysis remained, until now, unfinished. My primary objective is to show how and why the most restrictive Irish Radio broadcasting landscape is, as it is,...