Mark O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3781827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-2205-9232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reintroducing face-to-face support alongside remote support to form a hybrid stop smoking service in England
The hybrid approach allows smoking cessation services to evaluate which groups benefit from remote, face-to-face, or mixed options and allocate resources accordingly. Providing choice, flexible provision, non-judgmental support, and clear information about available options could improve engagement and match support to individual needs, enhancing outcomes
Propaganda Against the Country’
In the 1950s, British newspapers made a concerted effort to increase their circulation in the Irish state. Using records held at the National Archives of Ireland, this article examines the key political, social and cultural issues that emerged as the newspapers were scrutinised by government and lay-religious bodies for what was perceived as anti-Irish and indecent content. The files illustrate very differing reactions among interest groups: whil…
Indecent and Suggestive Pictorial Matter’
As an innovative photojournalism publication with a left-of-centre worldview, Picture Post was hugely popular in Ireland but also has the distinction of being one of the most frequently banned periodicals in twentieth-century Ireland. Senior church figures and morality campaigners viewed its photojournalism as indecent and obscene and engaged in a sustained decades-long battle to ban the publication. Utilising records held at the National Archive…
Cultivating ‘the heavies or opinion-forming press’
The transition from economic protectionism to free trade in the late-1950s saw the Irish government embark on a project to improve the state’s image abroad. Up to that point, the state had endured a tempestuous relationship with British newspapers and the adoption of free trade necessitated a new rapport to encourage positive coverage of the industrialisation project. The key components of this strategy were the courting of British newspapers thr…
Opposite Assumptions
The relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and news journalism in Ireland has long been problematic.1 Reviewing the nature of the relationship between the Church and Irish journalism in the early 1960s, the Dublin archdiocese’s “public image” committee recorded that many journalists believed that “the Church enjoys a special protection from criticism in the editorial and letter columns of newspapers other than the Irish Times.” The report…
Writing a Sexual Revolution
Between 1935 and 1979 the importation and sale of contraception and the publication of information about birth control was illegal in Ireland. Political discourse on the issue was grounded in religious doctrine and the issue was virtually invisible in terms of media content. \nBut in the 1960s as the state embraced free trade and introduced free second level education, the nature of the women’s pages of the national newspapers changed. Amid the i…
Policing the press
In 1929 the Irish state banned the publication of any information that advocated the prevention of conception. While much research has examined the cleansing of sexual matters from motion pictures and literature, the mechanics of how aspects of sexuality, in this instance birth control information, was excised from the most affordable, most widely available, and most easily purchased medium – the press – have received scant attention. This articl…
In the public interest? Political sex scandals and the media in Ireland
As with the United States and Great Britain there has been a markedincrease in the prevalence of political sex scandal themed stories reported on by Irish media since the 1990s. This article considers the concept of the political sex scandal, and its relationship with media in the Irish case. It argues that political sex scandal was a frequent part of Irish journalism pre-independence but that, post-independence, this approach was replaced with a…
The Metropolitan Press
This chapter examines the metropolitan press in Britain and Ireland between 1900 and 2011. While newspapers helped to set the agenda and tone of political and cultural discourse there existed often opaque connections between the various locales and the newspaper markets that operated on and between both islands. This chapter seeks to illuminate the relationships and interdependencies between the different newspaper markets and illustrate how, as …
Introduction
The relationship between the two islands of Great Britain and Ireland has a long, complex and compelling history. Given their geographical proximity and shared language one key dimension of this re
Fighting and Writing
The relationship between journalists and the Irish rebellion of Easter 1916 is a complex one. While the Rising was led in large part by a miscellany of poets, editors and journalists (many of whom feature prominently in the Rising’s historiography) many lesser-known journalists acted as planners and participants in the insurrection. As well as assessing the contribution of these lesser-known journalists to the events of 1916 and the Rising’s impa…
Representation of future generations in United Kingdom policy-making
The Fourth Estate
This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism, and the contribution of journalists and journalism to the evolution of modern Ireland have not. This book rectifies this deficit by mapping the development of journalism in Ireland fr…
Just Managing
The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give som…
In war-torn Spain’
The Spanish civil war was a conflict that acted as a touchstone for the divisions within Irish society. As a newly-independent state that was 93 per cent Catholic, reporting a conflict that involved, on the one hand, an armed rebellion against a democratically elected government, and on the other, the killing of clergy and the burning of churches, proved divisive. The decisions by Ireland’s three national newspaper titles to send correspondents t…
With the Irish in France’
In January 1916 a party of journalists from seven Irish newspapers visited Irish regiments serving on the western front. Such a privilege came at a price. Organised by the Department of Recruiting for Ireland, it was made clear to the journalists that this embedded tour had an agenda: they were ‘to set down what they saw there for the benefit of recruiting in Ireland’. This article examines the extent to which the three national titles included o…
Distributional impact assessments and the record of the Coalition Government
This paper reflects upon the gross discrepancies between the reassurances given in 2010 by the 2010-2015 UK Coalition Government that their budget and welfare cuts would fall ‘fairly’ across the income spectrum, and the reality of what had happened by the end of that government. It asks how the ‘distributional impact assessment’ provided with the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review could have been so wrong. In seeking to answer this question, type…
Journalism and emerging professionalism in Ireland
This article examines one of the first attempts by Irish journalists to establish a professional representative organisation. Established in near-tandem and in response to the establishment of the National Association of Journalists of Great Britain in 1884, the Association of Irish Journalists presents a unique insight into early attempts at professionalism by Irish journalists that were ultimately thwarted by the bitter divisions that, amid dem…
Whose War was it Anyway
While the participation of Irishmen in the Great War has prompted much scholarship, the commemoration of their involvement – and in particular how Irish journalism reported and interpreted such commemorations – has been less examined. This article argues that the journalism surrounding the annual Armistice Day commemoration was a central factor in the battle for power in independent Ireland. It finds that the annual commemoration played a major p…
Commerce and the Church
First published in January 1905, the Irish Independent is widely acknowledged as having been influenced by developments in journalism first associated, almost a decade earlier, with the Daily Mail in Britain. However, this article argues that while the Irish Independent adopted many elements of New Journalism its proprietor, William Martin Murphy was strategically selective in how elements were incorporated within his new venture. The success of …
Diagrammatic Elicitation
The use of graphic representations of experience and the social environment in the data collection process is an emerging approach. The terms diagramming, mapping and drawing are often used interchangeably, with no common interdisciplinary understanding of what they mean. The lack of a unifying terminology has resulted in simultaneous but separate developments undermining a more coherent approach to this emergent method. By defining what a diagra…
Marcuse and the Language of Power
This paper considers the political manipulation of language in the UK governmental fairness agenda. It employs Marcuse’s analytical notion of the suppression of the transitive meaning of “the word” within “the sentence.” Further to this it links the operationalizing of language with positivist and uncritical policy epistemologies used by the UK coalition government. Using this theoretical framework the paper draws out the two broad meanings of th…
Developing a ‘Semi-Systematic’ Approach to Using Large-Scale Data-Sets for Small-Scale Interventions
A history of the media in Ireland
Chris Morash, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 262 pp., £45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780521843928 To write a full history of the media in Ireland – including pamphlets, books, newspapers, r
Social inclusion and learning networks
This article has been produced from the work of a research project conducted in the context of a city‐wide education service in the United Kingdom. This was the Liverpool Learning Networks Research Project, which began in July 2005. The researchers carried out semi‐structured interviews with education practitioners – learning network coordinators – who have strategic responsibility for the development of school networks in Liverpool. The role of …
Representation of future generations in United Kingdom policy-making
Diagrammatic Elicitation
The use of graphic representations of experience and the social environment in the data collection process is an emerging approach. The terms diagramming, mapping and drawing are often used interchangeably, with no common interdisciplinary understanding of what they mean. The lack of a unifying terminology has resulted in simultaneous but separate developments undermining a more coherent approach to this emergent method. By defining what a diagra…
Policing the press
In 1929 the Irish state banned the publication of any information that advocated the prevention of conception. While much research has examined the cleansing of sexual matters from motion pictures and literature, the mechanics of how aspects of sexuality, in this instance birth control information, was excised from the most affordable, most widely available, and most easily purchased medium – the press – have received scant attention. This articl…
With the Irish in France’
In January 1916 a party of journalists from seven Irish newspapers visited Irish regiments serving on the western front. Such a privilege came at a price. Organised by the Department of Recruiting for Ireland, it was made clear to the journalists that this embedded tour had an agenda: they were ‘to set down what they saw there for the benefit of recruiting in Ireland’. This article examines the extent to which the three national titles included o…
How are the Perceptions of Learning Networks Shaped Among School Professionals and Headteachers at an Early Stage in their Introduction
Promises, Promises
This article examines the experience of the VCS within the context of the Liverpool Children's Fund. Its aim is to use a local case study to measure the reality of the Government's promises to the sector in a series of legislative and policy enactments in recent years. It argues that the gap between Government policy rhetoric and the promises made, and the real experience of VSCOs working in children's services in Liverpool, is still very great i…
In war-torn Spain’
The Spanish civil war was a conflict that acted as a touchstone for the divisions within Irish society. As a newly-independent state that was 93 per cent Catholic, reporting a conflict that involved, on the one hand, an armed rebellion against a democratically elected government, and on the other, the killing of clergy and the burning of churches, proved divisive. The decisions by Ireland’s three national newspaper titles to send correspondents t…
Distributional impact assessments and the record of the Coalition Government
This paper reflects upon the gross discrepancies between the reassurances given in 2010 by the 2010-2015 UK Coalition Government that their budget and welfare cuts would fall ‘fairly’ across the income spectrum, and the reality of what had happened by the end of that government. It asks how the ‘distributional impact assessment’ provided with the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review could have been so wrong. In seeking to answer this question, type…
Marcuse and the Language of Power
This paper considers the political manipulation of language in the UK governmental fairness agenda. It employs Marcuse’s analytical notion of the suppression of the transitive meaning of “the word” within “the sentence.” Further to this it links the operationalizing of language with positivist and uncritical policy epistemologies used by the UK coalition government. Using this theoretical framework the paper draws out the two broad meanings of th…
Sources of the Pentateuch
Promises, Promises
This article examines the experience of the VCS within the context of the Liverpool Children's Fund. Its aim is to use a local case study to measure the reality of the Government's promises to the sector in a series of legislative and policy enactments in recent years. It argues that the gap between Government policy rhetoric and the promises made, and the real experience of VSCOs working in children's services in Liverpool, is still very great i…
Power and the theory-and-practice conundrum
This article reflects on power in contract research relationships. Distinguishing between the overt forms of control and the more subtle aspects of control associated with the ‘enculturing’ of the researcher, it considers the ways in which power affects their ability to relate to professional practice. The discussion draws on the experience of one researcher working within a local schools service. It concludes that the ‘theory-and-practice conund…
How are the Perceptions of Learning Networks Shaped Among School Professionals and Headteachers at an Early Stage in their Introduction
Social inclusion and learning networks
This article has been produced from the work of a research project conducted in the context of a city‐wide education service in the United Kingdom. This was the Liverpool Learning Networks Research Project, which began in July 2005. The researchers carried out semi‐structured interviews with education practitioners – learning network coordinators – who have strategic responsibility for the development of school networks in Liverpool. The role of …
A history of the media in Ireland
Chris Morash, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 262 pp., £45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780521843928 To write a full history of the media in Ireland – including pamphlets, books, newspapers, r
Developing a ‘Semi-Systematic’ Approach to Using Large-Scale Data-Sets for Small-Scale Interventions
Marcuse and the Language of Power
This paper considers the political manipulation of language in the UK governmental fairness agenda. It employs Marcuse’s analytical notion of the suppression of the transitive meaning of “the word” within “the sentence.” Further to this it links the operationalizing of language with positivist and uncritical policy epistemologies used by the UK coalition government. Using this theoretical framework the paper draws out the two broad meanings of th…
Journalism and emerging professionalism in Ireland
This article examines one of the first attempts by Irish journalists to establish a professional representative organisation. Established in near-tandem and in response to the establishment of the National Association of Journalists of Great Britain in 1884, the Association of Irish Journalists presents a unique insight into early attempts at professionalism by Irish journalists that were ultimately thwarted by the bitter divisions that, amid dem…
Whose War was it Anyway
While the participation of Irishmen in the Great War has prompted much scholarship, the commemoration of their involvement – and in particular how Irish journalism reported and interpreted such commemorations – has been less examined. This article argues that the journalism surrounding the annual Armistice Day commemoration was a central factor in the battle for power in independent Ireland. It finds that the annual commemoration played a major p…
Commerce and the Church
First published in January 1905, the Irish Independent is widely acknowledged as having been influenced by developments in journalism first associated, almost a decade earlier, with the Daily Mail in Britain. However, this article argues that while the Irish Independent adopted many elements of New Journalism its proprietor, William Martin Murphy was strategically selective in how elements were incorporated within his new venture. The success of …
Diagrammatic Elicitation
The use of graphic representations of experience and the social environment in the data collection process is an emerging approach. The terms diagramming, mapping and drawing are often used interchangeably, with no common interdisciplinary understanding of what they mean. The lack of a unifying terminology has resulted in simultaneous but separate developments undermining a more coherent approach to this emergent method. By defining what a diagra…
With the Irish in France’
In January 1916 a party of journalists from seven Irish newspapers visited Irish regiments serving on the western front. Such a privilege came at a price. Organised by the Department of Recruiting for Ireland, it was made clear to the journalists that this embedded tour had an agenda: they were ‘to set down what they saw there for the benefit of recruiting in Ireland’. This article examines the extent to which the three national titles included o…
Distributional impact assessments and the record of the Coalition Government
This paper reflects upon the gross discrepancies between the reassurances given in 2010 by the 2010-2015 UK Coalition Government that their budget and welfare cuts would fall ‘fairly’ across the income spectrum, and the reality of what had happened by the end of that government. It asks how the ‘distributional impact assessment’ provided with the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review could have been so wrong. In seeking to answer this question, type…
The Fourth Estate
This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism, and the contribution of journalists and journalism to the evolution of modern Ireland have not. This book rectifies this deficit by mapping the development of journalism in Ireland fr…
Just Managing
The 'just about managing'. 'Hardworking families'. 'Alarm-clock Britain'. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give som…
In war-torn Spain’
The Spanish civil war was a conflict that acted as a touchstone for the divisions within Irish society. As a newly-independent state that was 93 per cent Catholic, reporting a conflict that involved, on the one hand, an armed rebellion against a democratically elected government, and on the other, the killing of clergy and the burning of churches, proved divisive. The decisions by Ireland’s three national newspaper titles to send correspondents t…
Introduction
The relationship between the two islands of Great Britain and Ireland has a long, complex and compelling history. Given their geographical proximity and shared language one key dimension of this re
Fighting and Writing
The relationship between journalists and the Irish rebellion of Easter 1916 is a complex one. While the Rising was led in large part by a miscellany of poets, editors and journalists (many of whom feature prominently in the Rising’s historiography) many lesser-known journalists acted as planners and participants in the insurrection. As well as assessing the contribution of these lesser-known journalists to the events of 1916 and the Rising’s impa…
Representation of future generations in United Kingdom policy-making
The Metropolitan Press
This chapter examines the metropolitan press in Britain and Ireland between 1900 and 2011. While newspapers helped to set the agenda and tone of political and cultural discourse there existed often opaque connections between the various locales and the newspaper markets that operated on and between both islands. This chapter seeks to illuminate the relationships and interdependencies between the different newspaper markets and illustrate how, as …
Writing a Sexual Revolution
Between 1935 and 1979 the importation and sale of contraception and the publication of information about birth control was illegal in Ireland. Political discourse on the issue was grounded in religious doctrine and the issue was virtually invisible in terms of media content. \nBut in the 1960s as the state embraced free trade and introduced free second level education, the nature of the women’s pages of the national newspapers changed. Amid the i…
Policing the press
In 1929 the Irish state banned the publication of any information that advocated the prevention of conception. While much research has examined the cleansing of sexual matters from motion pictures and literature, the mechanics of how aspects of sexuality, in this instance birth control information, was excised from the most affordable, most widely available, and most easily purchased medium – the press – have received scant attention. This articl…
In the public interest? Political sex scandals and the media in Ireland
As with the United States and Great Britain there has been a markedincrease in the prevalence of political sex scandal themed stories reported on by Irish media since the 1990s. This article considers the concept of the political sex scandal, and its relationship with media in the Irish case. It argues that political sex scandal was a frequent part of Irish journalism pre-independence but that, post-independence, this approach was replaced with a…
Propaganda Against the Country’
In the 1950s, British newspapers made a concerted effort to increase their circulation in the Irish state. Using records held at the National Archives of Ireland, this article examines the key political, social and cultural issues that emerged as the newspapers were scrutinised by government and lay-religious bodies for what was perceived as anti-Irish and indecent content. The files illustrate very differing reactions among interest groups: whil…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Law (19 works) · Irish (14 works) · Irish and British Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Media studies (14 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Newspaper (9 works)