Select bibliography
The following list comprises key suggested readings to accompany Frontlines: Irish Journalists Abroad, an exhibition on display at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum from October 2025 until March 2026.
The biographical resources consulted included the Dictionary of Irish Biography and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Many of the historical publications discussed can be accessed through digitised newspaper archives such as the British Newspaper Archive, the Irish Newspaper Archive and Newspapers.com.
War Reporting
W.H. Russell, The British Expedition to the Crimea (1858) and My Diary North and South (1863)
John Black Atkins, The Life of Sir William Howard Russell (1911)
Barbara Freeman, Kit’s Kingdom: The Journalism of Kathleen Blake Coleman (1989)
Michael Foley, ‘From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bourchier’ in Maureen O’Connor (ed), Back to the Future of Irish Studies: Festschrift for Tadhg Foley (2010)
Kevin Rafter, Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons (2025)
Oral history interview with Seaghan Maynes (1988). Imperial War Museums (www.iwm.org.u), catalogue number 12065
Pioneering Women
Carmel Snow and Mary Louise Aswell, The World of Carmel Snow (1962)
Susan Hamilton, Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism (2006)
Teja Varma Pusapati, Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850-1880 (2024)
Emily Crawford, ‘Journalism as a Profession for Women’, Contemporary Review (September 1893)
Frances Power Cobbe, ‘Celibacy vs Marriage’, Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862) and ‘Wife Torture in England’, Contemporary Review (April 1878)
Charlotte O’Conor Eccles, ‘The Experiences of a Woman Journalist’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (June 1893)
Tara Giddens, ‘“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ Journalism and Fiction’, English Studies, vol. 106, no. 6 (2023)
Diaspora Newspapers
Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Marcel Broersma and Mark O’Brien (eds), Politics, Culture and the Irish American Press, 1784-1963 (2021)
Ruth-Ann M. Harris et al (eds), The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot Newspaper, 1831-1863 (1989)
David Brundage, Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 (2016)
Patrick Speight, Irish-Argentine Identity in an Age of Political Challenge and Change, 1875-1983 (2019)
Niall Whelehan, Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War (2021)
Andrew Bielenberg, The Irish Diaspora (2014)
Graham Dawson, Jo Dover and Stephen Hopkins (eds), The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories (2016)
Exposing Atrocities
Carla King, ‘Michael Davitt and the Kishinev Pogrom, 1903’, Irish Slavonic Studies, no. 17 (1996)
S.O.S: How Ireland helped a nation – a podcast series from Concern (concern.net)
Sally Hayden, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route (2022)
New York Times reporting on Sudan by Declan Walsh (www.nytimes.com/by/declan-walsh) with photography by Ivor Prickett (www.nytimes.com/by/ivor-prickett)
Associated Press reporting on the Amazon by Steven Grattan (www.apnews.com/author/steven-grattan)
Bulbul Siddiqi, Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan and Sk Tawfique M Haque (eds), The Displaced Rohingyas: A Tale of a Vulnerable Community (2024)
Rashad Mammadov, Voices from Ukraine: Journalists In, from and about the War (2024)
