Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish journalist and author.

Education

Deaglán de Bréadún was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College Dublin, Tulsa University in Oklahoma and, more recently, Trinity College Dublin.[1]

Work

An award-winning journalist who worked for many years with The Irish Times[2] where he held a range of positions including Northern (Ireland) Editor, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Irish Language Editor, before taking early retirement from the paper at the end of 2012. Currently a contributor to the Sunday Independent, published in Dublin and the Belfast-based Irish News as well as being a regular broadcaster in English and Irish, he also worked in 2013-14 as Local Radio Correspondent at the Oireachtas (Republic of Ireland parliament) and in 2014-15 as Political Editor of The Irish Sun.

He won the Northern Ireland IPR/BT award for Daily News Journalist of the Year and has had two books published in English, one of them on the negotiations which led to the historic Belfast/Good Friday Agreement which ended the troubles in Northern Ireland and the other on Sinn Féin, the largest political party in both parts of the island of Ireland,[3] as well as three books in the Irish language.[4] A native of County Wexford, he has lived most of his life in Dublin where he attended Synge Street Christian Brothers School, University College Dublin and Trinity College. He was a member of the Press Council of Ireland from 2013 to 2019, nominated by the National Union of Journalists and serving the maximum period of two three-year terms. He is the membership secretary of the Dublin Freelance Branch of the NUJ and also serves on the advisory board of the union's magazine, The Journalist.

Publications

  • The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (2001, second edition 2008)
  • Power Play: The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin (2015)
  • Sceallóga (Chips, 1990, a collection of short stories)
  • Cinnlínte: Saol an Iriseora (Headlines: The Journalist's Life, 2016, a memoir)
  • Scéalta Nuachta (News Stories, 2016, a collection of articles in Irish).

References

  1. ↑ "Irish Times Appointments". Irish Times. 4 February 1997. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "Deaglan de Breadun". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Power Play: The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin by Deaglán de Bréadún". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Cinnlínte: Saol an Iriseora | CIC". Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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