Tuesday 17 November 2015

NPHFI Conference 2015 - University College Dublin

The Eighth Annual Conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI) took place in the UCD Humanities Institute on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November 2015.
This year's theme was: 'Reporting Revolution: What the papers said'. Speakers, including academics, journalists and independent scholars, came from Ireland, the UK, Canada, South Africa to present their research. A selection of photographs from the conference can be viewed on the Forum's Facebook page.

I presented a paper on the French journalist and author, Joseph Kessel (1898-1979). Kessel, who visited Dublin, Cork and Belfast during the Irish War of Independence, has been called the French Ernest Hemmingway.