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At the Edges of the Picture: the Media, Women and the War in the North

In: The Media and Northern Ireland

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  • Nell McCafferty

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It is no coincidence that a woman who wrote about social affairs was the first journalist to break the paper barrier which ensured British indifference to Northern Ireland from 1921 until 5 October 1968. Mary Holland’s article in the Observer, entitled ‘John Bull’s Other Island’, appeared the day after the seminal civil rights march of that date was batoned by the RUC in Derry. Her documented indictment of widespread structural discrimination against Catholics in the North was as shocking then as it is commonplace now. It was the indiscriminate use of RUC batons which accidentally propelled her news story onto the front page and caused her feature story to be spread prominently in the centre.

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  • Nell McCafferty, 1991. "At the Edges of the Picture: the Media, Women and the War in the North," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bill Rolston (ed.), The Media and Northern Ireland, chapter 9, pages 207-213, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11277-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11277-7_10
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