Centre for the Study of Human Settlement
and Historical Change
National University of Ireland, Galway
Media history in Ireland, Britain, and Canada:
Connections and Comparisons
One-day Colloquium - 4 November 2005
Martin McLoone, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Regional cinemas and national cultures: film in Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Ged Martin, Shanacoole, West Waterford
The political press in nineteenth-century Canada
Mark O’Brien, Dublin City University
A farewell to empire? The Irish Times and de Valera’s constitutional crusade
Simone Pilon, Franklin College, Indiana
Playing with identity: pseudonyms in the nineteenth-century press
Simon Potter, National University of Ireland, Galway
The BBC and the origins of public sector broadcasting in Canada
Mary Vipond, Concordia University, Montreal
A breakdown in communications: the flawed relationship between the
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and the BBC, 1933-36
For more information and to register please email Dr. Simon Potter
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Organisers – Dr. Simon Potter and Professor Ged Martin
This event is generously supported by the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences Government of Ireland Projects Fund Grant
scheme, and by the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.
On 5 November those attending the colloquium will be entitled to a
discount on entry to a day of screenings of contemporary Scottish films
and public discussions with Scottish filmmakers, hosted by the Town Hall
Theatre as part of a colloquium on New Scottish Cinema, held by the Huston
School of Film at NUI, Galway. Further details from the Huston School of
Film, ph: 091-512469, e-mail [log in to unmask]
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