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News,19 Feb 2021,13 mins

Episode 8: The Big Picture

Year ‘21

Available for over a year

This week it’s pomp and propaganda at the pictures. In 1921, the news shown before the main feature was carefully curated, as Ciara Chambers, author of Ireland in Newsreels, explains. We find out how audiences didn’t always take kindly to ‘fake news’.

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