Window and Mirror: RTE Television 1961-2011

December 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast by RTE television, when Irish culture and society were irrevocably changed. Window and Mirror presents a critical overview of the national television station, an insider's `warts and all' account of RTE and its fifty-year history. Photographs, cartoons, documents, and other graphics, many not seen before, help capture key moments. Window and Mirror highlights how RTE television had and continues to have an unparalleled influence on Irish society. ""The history of RTE turns out to be the history of an Irish people determined to shape its own future, Bowman argues. In his insightful and evocatively illustrated new book Bowman conjures decades of Irish social change.""-Irish Voice