Deaglán de Bréadún

Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish journalist and author.

Education

De Bréadún was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College Dublin 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 Editor, Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Political Correspondent before taking early retirement from the paper at the end of 2012. Currently a contributor to the Belfast-based Irish News and 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 Good Friday Agreement negotiations and their aftermath and the other on the Sinn Féin party,[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 CBS Synge Street, UCD 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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