- Donnellan , P. We Were the BBC 258 – 259 . unpublished typescript,
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 110 This comment is from a letter to a newspaper commenting on Donnellan's film, Lords of India (1963), a critical history of the British Raj
- Cohen , Robin . 1994 . Frontiers of Identity 11 – 12 . London
- Cohen . Frontiers , 5
- Donnellan , P. 1984 . “ 'Interview with W. Stephen Gilbert' ” . In Stories and Songs , Edited by: Thomas , M. 5 BFI . My emphasis
- Thomas . Stories and Songs 5
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 137
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 300
- Bishop , Patrick . 1999 . The Irish Empire: the story of the Irish abroad Dublin
- Doherty , Richard . 1999 . Irish Men and Women in the Second World War Dublin ), estimates that 140,000 Irishmen volunteered for the British army in the 1914-1918 period (p. 174).), estimates that outside the ‘Irish regiments', 78,000 Irish volunteered from Eire and 52,000 from Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1945 (p. 25)
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 5
- Donnellan . We Were the BBG 21
- Thomas . Stories and Songs 9
- Donnellan . We Were the BBG 10
- Thomas . Stories and Songs 12
- 1965 . “ 'Britain in the 1960s' ” . In The Long Revolution 348 Harmondsworth The phrase is Raymond Williams' aligning himself with those who--like Donnellan--insisted in raising issues of class in their cultural and educational work. See
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 101
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 10
- Thomas . Stories and Songs , 10 – 11 . It is also the case, despite this self-deprecatory stance, that Donnellan elsewhere notes that he had attended The Observer Film Exhibition and the NFT's ‘Free Cinema' films in 1956 and 1957, respectively, where he was impressed by Soviet and European film;
- Moffat . 1971 . BFI Interview , : e
- Thomas . Stories and Songs 10
- Thomas . Stories and Songs 8 See also the Moffat BFI Interview (1971), p.(a), and in the BECTU Interview (1991), where he states: ‘my long long-term aim was to proclaim beyond any doubt that industrial people who were generally marginalised by television, had as much right to be seen as sensible, committed human beings, capable of talking on a wide variety of subjects as anybody else who appeared on the box'
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 273 – 274 .
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 206 – 207 .
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 275 The filming of the Shelton Steel Works dispute in Stoke-on-Trent in 1973 is a case in point. Donnellan's point about this was that workers were rightly ill-disposed and suspicious of BBC film crews, fearing that they would be misrepresented. Donnellan understood this; thus his experiments with editing procedure derived from a documentarist's desire to bring forth the ‘truth' of a situation by the best means possible;
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 313
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 91
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 294
- Ryan , Liam . 1990 . “ Irish emigration to Britain since WWII ” . In Migrations: the Irish at home and abroad Edited by: Kearney , Richard . 45 – 67 . Dublin
- Daniels , Mary . 1993 . Exile or opportunity? . Irish Studies Review , Winter : 4 – 8 .
- Grey , Breda . 1999 . Longings and belongings: gendered spatialities of Irishness . Irish Studies Review , 7 (2) : 193 – 210 .
- We Were the BBC, p. 153. See note on sources about absence of files at BBC Written Archives. Without the original documents, any researcher is forced to rely on Donnellan's account and quoted extracts.
- Briggs , Asa . 1995 . The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: competition 1955-74 vol. 5 , 589 – 592 . Oxford
- Foster . 1995 . Paddy and Mr Punch: connections in Irish and English history 288 Harmondsworth On this general point, I differ from Roy Foster's assertion in an otherwise brilliantly observed essay, ‘Marginal men and Micks on the make', that ‘anti-Irish prejudice owed more to class than to race' (he is comparing Victorian and late-1980s Britain precisely). My point is that anti-Irish sentiment and class friction were a particularly combustible mixture in the 1960s. See
- Laughlin , Jim Mac . 1995 . Travellers and Ireland 5 – 22 . Cork
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 216 In retrospect, Donnellan notes that these aspects of this film ‘were an interesting precursor of some areas of my concern during the next ten years since the Troubles in the North of Ireland were now [1971] well underway',
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 263
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 102
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 306
- Curtis , Liz . 1984 . Ireland: the propaganda war London
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 260 'It was the juxtaposition of the Guards badge with the utterly improper use of military power that enraged me',
- Curtis , Liz . 1999 . Ireland: the propaganda war, , 2nd edn 283 Belfast
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 308 It is curious to note how the idea of ‘BBC' balance permeated some areas of Donnellan's thinking!
- Hall , Reg . 1995 . Irish Dance Hall, CD Notes London For Coleman's influence back in Ireland via his ‘78' recordings see
- O'Connor , Nuala . 1991 . Bringing it All Back Home 87 – 90 . London
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 299
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 329
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 318
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 319
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 323
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 324
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 319
- Cohen . Frontiers of Identity 13 points out that such rights were progressively denied to Afro-Caribbean and South Asian people in countries that remained formally connected to the UK under the British Nationality Act (1948) and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act (1962)
- Hobsbawn , Eric . 1968 . Industry and Empire 294 – 312 . Harmondsworth
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 54
- Donnellan . We Were the BBC 296
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