The BBC's Maurice Walsh talks to Pete Hamill about the role of journalists in the Irish revolutionThursday, March 19th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House
Maurice Walsh, distinguished foreign correspondent for the BBC, discusses his book The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with Pete Hamill. The News from Ireland
examines the development of the Anglo-Irish war and the shifts in the
reporting of events by British and American correspondents as well as
other foreign journalists and literary figures, with revealing insights
into the propaganda war and the ways in which both the British and the
Irish tried to interest journalists in their cause. Maurice Walsh also
emphasizes the power of public opinion to influence the British
government and analyzes the effect this had on the course of the
revolution.
Maurice Walsh is an Assistant Editor at BBC News and an award-winning documentary maker. He has been a foreign correspondent in Central and South America and has reported from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. His essays, reviews and reportage have been widely published in newspapers and magazines in the UK, Ireland and the United States. In 2001, he was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Novelist, essayist and journalist Pete Hamill is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and a member of the Glucksman Ireland House NYU Advisory Board.
Introductions by Eileen Reilly and Pete Hamill
Free admission.
In order to ensure a seat, please RSVP to 212-998-3950 (option 3) or email ireland.house@nyu.edu.
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