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

Nell McCafferty

Chapter 9 in The Media and Northern Ireland, 1991, pp 207-213 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: British Government; Nobel Peace Prize; House Search; British Army; Water Cannon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11277-7_10

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