Framing the Protestant Penumbra: Regional newspaper framing of Protestant identity in County Sligo 1914-1918

Abstract

Newspaper framing by the Sligo Independent during the period 1914-1918 provides evidence of a community in its final days “class-washing” the Protestant community in Sligo.

By using the British Army’s reasserting of English upper-class values used to recruit Irish soldiers for the war effort, the Sligo Independent newspaper reasserted British-Irish nobility as a credible identity of the Protestant Sligo community.