Irish Journalism Before Independence More a disease than a profession

"Rafter's 'Irish Journalism Before Independence'... is in a sense a map of a territory that remains only partly explored; and, like all such maps, it provides us with tantalising glimpses of why this might be so, and what remains to be done to fill in more of the outlines." "As an agenda-setting volume, 'Irish Journalism Before Independence' is timely..." -- Chris Morash. Journalism Studies "Overall, the volume is an important, and useful, contribution to a burgeoning historiography of journalism." -- Ian Miller. Political Studies Review