No he focuses on the UK but he does look at the role of early computer magazines and I suspect some of those mags were available in Ireland too..
It was his PhD but here are a couple of articles
Haddon, L. (1988). "Electronic and Computer Games: The History of an Interactive Medium." Screen 29(2): 55-7.
Haddon, L. (1988). "The Home Computer: the Making of a Consumer Electronic." Science as Culture(2): 7-51.
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