%T Tabloid Journalism in Ireland and Brazil: A Comparative Analysis between an Irish and a Brazilian Tabloid. %D 2018 %I Griffith College %L go221 %K Irish and Brazilian news, Irish Daily Mirror, Brazil’s Meia Hora de Noticias and news related to urban violence. %X This dissertation analyzes and compares Irish and Brazilian coverage of news related to urban violence from two tabloid papers, namely Ireland’s Irish Daily Mirror and Brazil’s Meia Hora de Noticias, over a period of three weeks, from 27th April 2018 to 18th May 2018. The aims are to verify the similarities and differences observed between the two papers selected, and to determine how the subject of urban violence is dealt with in both publications. The methodology uses both quantitative analysis and discourse qualitative analysis to achieve these aims. The analytical categories of the research included medium, date of publication, size/length of the article, classification according to genre, articles’ sources, articles’ subjects, news values and lexical choice. The analysis showed that the coverage of news related to urban violence in both papers was mostly similar, especially in the categories related to sources and news values. The categories of articles’ subjects and lexical choice presented both similarities and differences that reflected the realities experienced by both countries on the subject of urban violence. The major differences were noticed in terms of articles’ size/length. Sensationalism was present in both papers, though it was slightly more common in the Irish Daily Mirror. It is suggested that future research should cover a larger period of analyses and include more tabloids from both nations. In addition, it is also recommended that future research brings more cross-national studies comparing Irish tabloids with those from other countries. %A Felipe Mennucci Wasserstein