Seamus O’Fawkes and other characters
The British tabloid cartoon coverage of the IRA campaign in England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12604332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roseanna Doughty (0000-0003-4291-8082, School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing Old Medical School 4 Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 440-457 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688804.2018.1481373 |
| OpenAlex | W2807259262 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
On 8 March 1973, the violence of Belfast spread to the streets of London as the IRA launched their bombing campaign in England. This article examines the cartoon coverage of IRA bomb attacks on English cities published in the British press during the early 1970s. By investigating political cartoons from leading national newspapers, this article sheds new light on reactions to the violence and explores how this affected the lived experiences of the Irish in Britain. It highlights how newspapers used symbols of Britishness and WWII iconography to (re)construct an imagined British community in the face of the IRA threat. The cartoons also indicate a more ambiguous image of the Irish in Britain, one of both harbourers and victims of terrorists. This focus on pictorial representations reveals the complexity of press attitudes towards IRA bombings as the humour inherent in cartoons enables them to allude to ideas journalists could not
Art history · Britishness · Ethnology · Face (sociological concept · Iconography · Irish · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
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The Irish in Post-War Britain
Negotiating English identity
Britishness and Otherness
The Assimilation of Irish Immigrants in England
Reconstructing deconstructing 'race
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |