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The Irish Times: Past and Present

category national | history and heritage | event notice author Friday April 11, 2008 21:18author by IPR Group Report this post to the editors

Book Launch, Friday 18th April 2008, 7.30 p.m., Liberty Hall, Dublin. Author: JOHN MARTIN

Main speaker: Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Integration

“…a very fine journalist, an excellent man, but on Northern questions a renegade or white nigger”
Those were the words from a conversation with the British Ambassador to Ireland at a lunch meeting in 1969, which he duly reported without delay to his masters at the British Foreign Office. But who said them and to whom did they refer?

The author lays bare the power structure of the newspaper which insists on transparency and openness for all other institutions in Irish life, but draws a discreet veil over its own activities. The Directors of the Irish Times, along with the Editor, have to swear an Oath of Secrecy before a Commissioner for Oaths each year. This book is essential for understanding one of the most important institutions in Irish life and therefore the dynamics of Irish society itself.

This book is a comprehensive review of the history of The Irish Times since its foundation in 1859, drawing on archival records, interviews and other primary sources – including the British Public Record Office. It covers the early development of the newspaper as the organ of Anglo-Ireland, and examines the positions it adopted throughout the turbulent century and a half that followed.

It reveals for the first time the strange legal and financial structures of the newspaper and examines conflicts involving some of its leading personalities.

The recent dramatic resignation of Bertie Ahern makes an analysis of the role of The Irish Times in the democratic life of the country all the more opportune. The newspaper which has insisted on openness and transparency for everyone else appears to keep a discreet veil over its own activities.

Who, for example, is Major McDowell, the former British Army intelligence officer who was Chief Executive of the newspaper from 1963 to 1997 and chairman of The Irish Times Trust from its foundation in 1974 to 2001? Why was he accorded extraordinary powers within the Irish Times Group? Why are the board of Directors required to swear an oath of secrecy? Why did McDowell contact Downing Street in 1969 with the outbreak of war in Northern Ireland?

The resignation of Ahern is only the latest coup inflicted by the newspaper on democratically elected Irish leaders. Ahern was prevented from succeeding Albert Reynolds in 1994. As far back as 1927 The Irish Times played a role in the collapse of a prospective Labour Party/Fianna Fail/National League coalition when its future editor R.M. Smyllie got a National League Deputy, John Jinks, drunk.

For many concerned at the apparently unchallengeable position of The Irish Times in political life, this book will provide a democratic riposte.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "stick to the kebabs"     satyr    Fri Apr 11, 2008 23:35 
   Messenger     Bronterre O'Brien    Sat Apr 12, 2008 03:14 
   media analysis welcome     media consumer    Sat Apr 12, 2008 07:50 
   on goggling the IPR     Googly eyes    Sat Apr 12, 2008 13:57 
   more info     Wes    Sat Apr 12, 2008 22:35 
   Question     Question    Sun Apr 13, 2008 16:21 
   The cover (literally) and some info on the (deep) background     Captain White    Sun Apr 13, 2008 20:53 
   An Orwellian "1985"     Starkadder    Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:43 
   Booked     Harold Wigwam    Tue Apr 15, 2008 13:35 
 10   Oh really?     Starkadder    Tue Apr 15, 2008 14:43 
 11   Playground bully insults?!     John Martin    Tue Apr 15, 2008 15:40 
 12   There is a thread, a bonny thread     Jimmy McNulty    Tue Apr 15, 2008 15:41 
 13   History     Hiro Nakamura    Tue Apr 15, 2008 16:17 
 14   D'Olier Street Fights Back!     Waste Paper    Tue Apr 15, 2008 16:49 
 15   news vs. views     Blogweary    Tue Apr 15, 2008 23:54 
 16   Noise and disinformation     Harold Wigwam    Wed Apr 16, 2008 00:02 
 17   it ain't me     Shakima 'Kima' Greggs    Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:32 
 18   Blushing violets?     Daisy Daisy    Wed Apr 16, 2008 15:14 
 19   Protestants only need apply     JEAN DUNNE    Mon Apr 21, 2008 16:31 
 20   1962     John Martin    Mon Apr 21, 2008 17:19 
 21   Left-wingers/Liberals in the Irish Times     Daisy Daisy    Mon Apr 21, 2008 19:17 
 22   Myles of laughs     Reader    Tue Apr 22, 2008 00:15 
 23   No Protestant satirists?     Silent O'Moyle    Tue Apr 22, 2008 04:10 
 24   Tony Gray and Jean Dunne     John Martin    Tue Apr 22, 2008 09:30 
 25   Sneer?     Daisy Daisy    Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:14 
 26   What "Historical" Society?     Renegade White Nigger    Tue Apr 22, 2008 16:29 
 27   Phoenix     Arek    Fri May 02, 2008 11:03 
 28   Reviews     Corkman    Fri May 02, 2008 11:59 
 29   Irish Times Today     Justin Morahan    Sat May 03, 2008 13:34 
 30   poor man's university     media consumer    Sat May 03, 2008 15:24 
 31   Quality of IT versus the rest     Renegade White Nigger    Tue May 06, 2008 14:03 
 32   British State influence     John Martin    Wed May 07, 2008 08:56 
 33   Foreign influence     Renegade White Nigger    Wed May 07, 2008 17:52 
 34   John/Justin     Miriam    Thu May 08, 2008 11:28 
 35   Miriam and Renegade White Nigger     John Martin    Fri May 09, 2008 10:47 
 36   The bigger threats     Renegade White Nigger    Fri May 09, 2008 20:08 
 37   Renegade white nigger     John Martin    Sat May 10, 2008 12:20 
 38   Review of book on Raidio na Gaeltachta     Arek    Fri May 23, 2008 16:38 
 39   An Phoblacht     Arek    Fri May 30, 2008 08:29 
 40   limits of journo liberalism     shirt no tie    Fri May 30, 2008 11:17 
 41   "Talking history" on "The Irish Times: Past and Present     Arek    Mon Aug 18, 2008 21:09 


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