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| Titre : | Regulating Print : The State and Control of Print in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2008) |
| Auteurs : | James KELLY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 23 2008) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 142174 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The absence of any body, organisation or institution charged with the responsibility formally of formally regulating print in eighteenth-century Ireland either at the pre-publication or post-publication stage and the failure to provide copyright protection to authors ostensibly created an environment wherein printers were at liberty to publish what they pleased. However, there was no entitlement to freedom of expression, and the Protestant authorities contrived to ensure that what was published was confined within official religious, moral and political parameters by prosecuting printers that transgressed these boundaries and by using the privilege of parliament and the law of seditious libel to pursue errant authors, printers and publishers. This proved highly efficacious in the early eighteenth century in cubring Jacobitism, and, after a comparatively relaxed period spanning most of the mid-eighteenth century, during the 1780s and 1790s when the authorities were able, by means of a variety of new and established procedures, to confine the liberal and radical press |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | James Kelly |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
