Television and bayonets
Published in 20th-century / Contemporary History, Feature Article, Issue 3 May/June2013, Letters, Volume 21Sir,—Desmond Fennell’s comment about the Americanisation of Ireland called to mind Conor Cruise O’Brien’s observation, more than 40 years ago, that ‘the people of the South [the Republic] are now more Anglicised than at any time under British rule. Television is a more powerful weapon of acculturation than bayonets.’—Yours etc.,
MICHAEL GALLIGAN
Dublin 5
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