English newsbooks and Irish rebellion, 1641–1649

David A. O'Hara

‘ … an important addition to the work of Joad Raymond, Ethan Shagan, Kathleen Noonan and others, on the development of a news/propaganda industry during the 1640s, and on the centrality of Ireland in that process. O’Hara’s book … provides a firm foundation for further research into this topic’, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Irish Economic & Social History.

‘… O’ Hara’s book will provide a useful quarry for future historians of the Anglo-Irish relationship as it was represented in the print culture of the 1640s’, Alan Marshall, SHARPNews (Winter, 2007).

‘The text abounds with quotations and references to authors, publishers and titles, which provide precious insight into the interaction between them. It is made clear that newsbooks operated more as “instruments of persuasion rather than as brokers of news”’, Karine Bigand, Etudes Irlandaises (No. 32.1, 2007).

'Provides readers with a valuable overview of the Irish rebellion and its impact upon English newsprint', Annette Walton, Irish Historical Studies (May 2009).