Radio In The Republic Of Ireland
Licensed radio broadcasting in Ireland is one element of the wider media in Ireland, with 85% of the population listening to a licenced service on any given day. This article deals with the legal radio stations of Ireland. For a discussion of the extensive illegal broadcasting scene in Ireland, see Irish pirate radio.
Read more about Radio In The Republic Of Ireland: History, Licencing, Transmission, Ownership, Independent Local Radio, Community Radio, Special Interest Services, Institutional Services, Temporary Services, Future Stations
Famous quotes containing the words radio, republic and/or ireland:
“Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“Out of Ireland have we come,
Great hatred, little room
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother’s womb
A fanatic’s heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)