Conor O'Clery
Conor O'Clery is an Irish journalist and writer.
Background[edit]
Born in Belfast, Conor O'Clery graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1972. He was deputy editor of The Gown, the QUB student newspaper.
Career[edit]
O'Clery worked for The Irish Times for over 30 years in various positions, including news editor and foreign correspondent based in London, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Beijing and New York City.[1]
He wrote for The New Republic from Moscow, contributed columns to Newsweek International, and has been a frequent commentator on broadcast channels BBC, NPR and CNN.
O'Clery won several awards, including Journalist of the Year, twice, in Ireland: first, in 1987, for his reporting of the Soviet Union, and secondly, in 2002, for reporting the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, which he witnessed from his office three blocks away.[2]
O'Clery has written a number of books.
He lives in Dublin with his Russian-born Armenian wife, Zhanna.[3] His book, The Shoemaker and his Daughter, tells the story of Zhanna's family, an ordinary Soviet family, from World War 1 to the fall of the Soviet Union and won the 2020 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.[4]
Bibliography[edit]
- The Shoemaker and his Daughter, August 2018
- The Star Man, 2016
- Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union, 2011
- May You Live in Interesting Times, 2008
- The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune, 2007
- Panic at the Bank: How John Rusnak Lost AIB $700 Million (co-authored with Siobhan Creaton), 2002
- Ireland in Quotes: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1999
- The Greening of the White House, 1997
- Daring Diplomacy: Clinton's Secret Search for Peace in Ireland, 1997
- America, A Place Called Hope?, 1993
- Melting Snow: An Irishman in Moscow, 1991
- Phrases Make History Here: Century of Irish Political Quotations, 1886-1986
References[edit]
- ^ "Irish Times to open Beijing bureau". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Win a pair of tickets to Robert Fisk in Conversation with Conor O'Clery". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Interview with two time Irish journalist of the year". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ "Conor O'Clery wins 2020 Michel Déon Prize". www.booksirelandmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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