Untertitel:: Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers
Verlag:: NEW ISLAND BOOKS
Erschienen:: 12.11.2015
Seitenanzahl:: 304
ISBN:: 1848404794
EAN:: 9781848404793
Sprache:: Englisch
Format:: EPUB
Schutz:: Dig. Wass.

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The Press Gang

David Kenny

In September 1931, Pádraig Pearse's mother started a revolution in Dublin. She pushed a button, and the presses began rolling at Éamon de Valera's legendary Irish Press Newspaper Group, changing the landscape of Irish journalism forever. In The Press Gang, for the first time, fifty-five of its former writers and editors celebrate its glory days, from the 1950s to its closure in May 1995 - when the pub was the real office, and newspapers were full of insane, and insanely talented, people. There are stories of IRA gunmen in the front office, the reporter who broke his leg in two places (Mulligan's and the White Horse), Mary Kenny challenging the old boys' network, tea with Prince Charles, Johnny Rotten in a Dublin jail cell, and the hunt for Don Tidey.The Press Gang paints a poignant and hilarious pen-picture of an industry that has changed beyond recognition, and recalls an age of characters, chancers, geniuses, and above all, brilliant journalism.