Our 1,000th post notes upcoming AJHA paper presentation | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog
I will present my above titled paper at the American Journalism Historians Association's 43rd Annual Conference, Oct. 3-5, in Pittsburgh. The paper explores how the weekly Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper reported—or ignored—two of the most violent episodes in twentieth century Irish history. Both events—in November 1920 in Dublin, and in January 1972 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland—came…