BBC/Queen's University series - Prof. Rob Savage - Broadcasting and the Border: How partition influenced broadcasting on the island of Ireland.

Date: 09/27/2021    This talk will address how partition influenced the development of the broadcast media in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

It will explore the evolution of broadcasting on both sides of the border and consider how the broadcast media challenged and ultimately undermined powerful institutions in each state.

Broadcasting and the Border: How partition influenced broadcasting on the island of Ireland.

Date: 09/27/2021    Talk 23

The Partition of Ireland talks programme in partnership with BBC

About Professor Rob Savage
Professor Robert Savage directs the Boston College Irish Studies Program and is a member of the university's History Department.
He is the author of four books that explore contemporary Irish and
British history including The BBCâ s Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland (2015) and A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972, (2010) winner of the 2011 James S. Donnelly Sr. Book Prize from the  American Conference for Irish Studies. Savage has been awarded Visiting Fellowships at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin; at the  University of Edinburgh, where he held a Leverhulme Visiting  Professorship, at Queenâ s University, Belfast and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His new book The Oxygen of Publicity? Northern Ireland and the Politics of Censorship in Thatcherâ s Britain, will be published by Oxford University Press later this year. 

Further Reading
Robert Savage: The BBC's Irish Troubles, Television, Conflict and Northern IrelandRobert Savage: A Loss of Innocence? television and Irish Society 1960-1972 John Horgan: Broadcasting and Public Life, RTÃ News and Current Affairs 1926-1997Roy Foster: Luck and the Irish, A Brief History of Change from 1970 Edward Brennan: A Post-Nationalist History of Television in IrelandRichard pine: 2RN and the Origins of Irish Radio