Lecture 151: Fake News and the War of Independence by Michael Barry

As the War of Independence began to rage in Ireland in 1920, the British sent press officers to Dublin to promote their version of events. Mainly veterans of producing propaganda during the ‘Great War’, these began to issue falsehoods and full-on Fake News.
In this illustrated talk, author of a book just published on the subject, Michael B. Barry, tells the story of this fascinating but little-known facet of the War of Independence

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