The Information Research Department, unattributable propaganda, and Northern Ireland: promising salvation but ending in failure?

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The Information Research Department, unattributable propaganda, and Northern Ireland: promising salvation but ending in failure?

This article examines the role of the IRD (Information Research Department) in Northern Ireland during the first half of the 1970s. After discussing British conceptualisations of propaganda, it offers a detailed account of IRD activity, including how a Foreign Office department came to be involved o...

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Main Author:	Cormac, Rory
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35187/

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