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    Hickman, John Charles.  _Selling Guanta?namo: Exploding the

    Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Mlitary Prison_.

    Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.  279 pp.  $24.95,

    ISBN 978-0-8130-4455-2.

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    Title: Visible Lives in Material Things: Visual and Material

       Culture and Irish Cultural History

    Date: 2014-09-01

Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the Irish regional press to be held at Dublin City University (DCU) on Friday 12 December 2014. The conference aims to address the historical and contemporary development of the regional press in the major urban centres and rural areas across Ireland. This conference is organised in association with the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI).

At the very start of his seminal book, _Public Opinion_ (1922), Walter Lippmann writes:  "There is an island in the ocean where in 1914 a few Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans lived. No cable reaches that island, and the British mail steamer comes but once in sixty days. In September it had not yet come.... It was, therefore, with more than usual eagerness that the whole colony assembled at the quay on a day in mid-September to hear from the captain....