Putting the banks in the frame: Print media constructions of the Irish banking crisis

Abstract

This research utilises a framing analysis approach to uncover how events surrounding the Irish Banking crisis of 2008 were constructed in both the Irish Times and the Irish Independent. It finds that the crisis was predominantly framed in a manner which upheld and further reinforced the dominant neoliberal system.Through use of episodic framing, the inherent instability of the global capitalist system remained obscured, and Ireland's crisis was largely constructed as a distinct failure of national banking institutions