Broadcasting in Ireland

In the late 1970s, experts in media and communication were commissioned in different countries around the world to write these case studies on broadcasting. It's not clear what the results were, or whether anyone ever made any comparison between one and another. Like many historical booklets and technical documents, the information contained in this 1978 book is very out of date but makes a fascinating historical artefact itself. The writer was a director general of RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, and is extremely well informed, but positions this in a social context that is clearly of its time (male centred and ignoring any minority perspective). Some dry information like financial data is accompanied by some amazing infrastructural and programming information.