Sitting in his office at Dublin City University, where he has long been head of the school of communications, Kevin Rafter contemplates his time as editor of Magill – all eight months of it. He likes to joke, he says, that Magill broke his heart – not editing the magazine, but writing its story. As an academic, he previously wrote papers on Magill’s coverage of Northern Ireland, but the book is a very different and livelier proposition. Part 1 of this series drew from his book to explain how the magazine broke the mould of Irish media and launched the…

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