Only one major Irish newspaper picked up the cause of promoting recruitment during the Great War, writes Mark O’Brien, of Dublin City University. The author analysed the coverage three national, Irish newspapers gave to a press tour of the front lines arranged by the British War Office. The papers in question are the Irish Times, … Continued

Italian fascist propaganda created a negative image of France and socialism during the “Paris, 1937” exhibition, writes Francescomaria Evangelisti of University of Seville. Using the Italian press to manipulate information, France was presented as a chaotic nation full of drunks and idlers. The fascists manipulated information to fabricate an idea of “otherness”, with the France as the … Continued