Broadcasting in Irish: Minority Language, Radio, Television and Identity.
Author: WATSON, Iarfhlaith.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003. 148 pages. Paperback.
This book explores the role of Irish broadcasting in sustaining and promoting the Irish language and a sense of national identity. The author discusses the ambitions of the Irish Free State in relation to the establishment of the Dublin broadcasting station, 2RN, in 1926, and the presence of Irish-language programmes on national radio and, from 1962, on television channels. He describes the campaigns for the establishment, first, of Raidio na Gaeltachta and, second, of Teilifis na Gaeilge (later TG4), and the debates which they engendered, presenting the arguments for and against the ideologies and practicalities of the production, presentation and reception of Irish-language programmes on all Irish channels.
ISBN: 1851827323
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