Creating Space: The Education of a Broadcaster - Softcover

O'Mahony, Andy

9781908308931: Creating Space: The Education of a Broadcaster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908308931 ISBN 13: 9781908308931

Publisher: The Liffey Press, 2017

The memoirs of Andy O'Mahony, an Irish broadcast journalist who worked from 1961 to 2013. He was one of Ireland's first television news anchors, and thereafter was a radio and television host of various long-running series. He also made radio and television programs for BBC between 1977 and 1988, including a number of television arts documentaries. This book chronicles his varied career, the people he met, and the rapid development of Ireland over the past half-century.

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About the Author:

Andy O'Mahony is an Irish broadcast journalist who worked for RTE (Raidio Telefis Eireann) from 1961 to 2013 He was one of the network's first television news anchors, and thereafter was a radio and television host of various long-running series. He also made radio and television programmes for BBC between 1977 and 1988, including a number of television arts documentaries for BBC2. The programmes he was most closely identified with over the years consisted of a number of book-based radio series for RTE. Series such as Books and Company, Off The Shelf and Dialogue provided a regular forum for the discussion of ideas in economics, politics and culture. From 1988 to 2000, he presented The Sunday Show, a current affairs talk show for RTE Radio 1 He earned four Jacob's Radio awards. A lifelong book collector, he donated his personal library in February 2015 to the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick. This collection of over 7000 volumes reflects the donor's various interests, ranging from philosophy, religion and literature to economics, politics and the history of ideas.

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