Scandal or Silence: The Irish print media’s role in investigating and shaping historical Church and state abuse as national ‘scandals’, 1920–2003

Contemporary narratives of the abuses suffered by generations of women and children in Irish institutions are often framed through a reductive language of media revelation and discovery. Politicians, academics and commentators often speak of these abuses as ‘secrets’ wrenched from a ‘dark’ and ‘hidd