Rains, Stephanie
(2016)
City streets and the city edition: newsboys and
newspapers in early twentieth-century Ireland.
Irish Studies Review, 24 (2).
pp. 142-158.
ISSN 0967-0882
Abstract
This article examines the newsboy as both an important figure of early
twentieth-century Irish streets and also a vital final link in the chain
of media production and distribution at the time. Despite the advent
of industrial communications and manufacturing processes in print
culture well before the end of the nineteenth century, newspapers in
particular were ultimately dependent upon boys as young as eleven
years old to sell copies, especially in urban areas. Newsboys were
very visible and audible figures on Irish city streets, and presumably
because of this were themselves the subject of frequent newspaper
stories. This article explores the way in which newsboys were both part
of the newspaper industry while simultaneously being represented
in the press as exemplars of the urban working classes for middleclass readers.
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