The International Perception of the Irish Republican Army and Chechen Insurgency

Authors

Henry Forteith, University of Arkansas

Keywords

text mining, Chechnya, Irish Republican Army, media, insurgency

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain how acts of violence influenced the media’s description of the Irish Republican Army and Chechen insurgencies and how the label of ‘terrorist’ affected the perception of the Anglo-Irish and Russo-Chechen conflicts. Quantitative data from the New York Times and International Newsstream databases are used to examine the change in word frequency to describe the IRA and Chechen fighters across a twelve-year span and four-month span before and after certain international events.

Recommended Citation

Forteith, Henry (2022) "The International Perception of the Irish Republican Army and Chechen Insurgency," The Ozark Historical Review: Vol. 50, Article 5.

Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ohr/vol50/iss1/5