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Irish periodicals - non-fiction content

First post and replies | Last post by Tim Satterthwaite, 11 months ago

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Elena: thank you for this fascinating presentation. I get a clear sense, in your account, of how Irish myths and legends, in particular, provided models for the formation of Irish nationalist youth, rooted in the prelapsarian past. Could you tell us a little more about how these periodicals engaged with actuality? Was most of the content fictional, and if not, what else filled their pages? Was there explicit propagandist content, and how did the magazines engage with the trauma of the European war, the Easter Uprising, and the Civil War? Were current events refracted at all in the content of t...

By Tim Satte...

11 months ago
Thank you for your questions and sorry for the delay in answering them. Most of the content of the periodicals was fictional, but they all featured also a column devoted to the letters from the readers, book reviews, columns about sports (Gaelic Games) and editorials. The periodicals organised essay-writing contexts for their readers on topics such as "My favourite Irish heroes" and the like. They also engaged with actuality, though especially in the years of the Anglo-Irish War and of the Civil War when actuality became paramount because the young readers wanted to read about what was happ...

By Elena Ogl...

11 months ago
Thank you for this comprehensive (!) answer. So interesting: do you know of comparable periodicals in other countries, aimed at indoctrinating youths into a militant nationalist cause? I wonder where you might look for parallels?

By Tim Satte...

11 months ago

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