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Conor O'Clery

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Conor O'Clery is an Irish journalist and writer.

Background

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "Irish Times to open Beijing bureau". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Interview with two time Irish journalist of the year". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  4. ^ "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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