Political communication

Language matters, man.

And that's my problem with political communication in Nigeria.

It's terrible.

They don't care, man.

And tonight we ask, what made McGill different? What made Vincent Brown such an extraordinary and sometimes difficult editor? and how this small, frequently cash-strapped magazine helped to change Irish journalism and perhaps Ireland itself.

And to help me do this, I'm delighted to be joined by the author of Fearless, Professor Kevin Rafter, one of Ireland's leading scholars of media and politics, and Kevin is Professor of Political Communication at DCU.

and also delighted to be joined in parts two and three by Harry Magee, political correspondent with the Irish Times.

He's one of Ireland's most experienced political journalists, and like Kevin, occupied the editor's chair at McGill for a time, and his recent book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach, took him back into the extraordinary political world of Charles Hoagy and the Ireland of the early 1980s.

So stay with us here on Newstalk.

Welcome back, we're Talking History and tonight we are talking about McGill and its contribution to Irish journalism in the 1980s.

I'm rejoined by Professor Kevin Rafter, Professor of Political Communication at DCU and the author of the new book Fearless, Vincent Brand's McGill and Ireland in the 1980s, published in paperback by New Island Books.

And I'm also delighted to be joined by Harry Magee, political correspondent with the Irish Times.