Eoghan Corry

Eoghan Corry
Born Eoghan Corry
(1961-01-19) 19 January 1961
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation Travel writer
Nationality Irish
Education Rathmines School of Journalism Dublin Institute of Technology
Alma mater University College Dublin (UCD)
Period 1978 – present
Genre Non-fiction, sports history, history, biography
Notable works Illustrated History of the GAA

Eoghan Corry (Irish: Eoghan Ó Cómhraí; born 19 January 1961) is an Irish journalist and author regarded as the most extensively journeyed travel writer in Ireland, averaging over 30 countries a year.[1] Since 2002 he has edited Ireland's biggest circulation travel publication, Travel Extra. A former sportswriter and sports editor he has written books on sports history, and was founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland.

Awards

Corry was awarded a lifetime "contribution to the industry" award at the Irish Travel Industry Awards in Dublin on January 22, 2016. He received the Business Travel Journalist of the year award in London in October 2015. Previous awards include Irish sportswriter of the year, young journalist of the year, Seamus Kelly award, MacNamee award for coverage of Gaelic Games and was short listed for sports book of the year.

Early life

Corry was born in Dublin, the third of four children of Patrick Corry (1916–1971) from Kilmacduane, Cooraclare and Anne Corry née MacMahon (1929–2009) from Clahanmore, Milltown Malbay, both from County Clare. He grew up in Ardclough, Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.

Career

Corry was educated at Scoil Mhuire, Clane, at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and University College Dublin (UCD). His first published work, as a teenager, was poetry in English and the Irish language in literary magazines and the New Irish Writing section of The Irish Press.

He began his journalistic career as a sportswriter with The Irish Times and Sunday Tribune where he won several awards and became sports editor. Determined to pursue a career outside of sports journalism, he joined the The Sunday Press as a feature writer in 1985 and became features editor of the The Irish Press in 1986, bringing younger writers and a more contemporary, polemical and literary style to the paper.[2] He revived the literary and travel sections of the paper and was an adjudicator of the Dublin Theatre Festival awards.

When The Irish Press closed in 1995 he became Features Editor of the short-lived Evening News, storylined the GAA museum in Croke Park in 1998 and was founding editor of High Ball magazine. Since then he has been a columnist, first with the The Sunday Business Post and then with the Evening Herald and Irish Independent. As a journalism lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology he told students that "journalism is about p-sing people off".[3]

Television

Eoghan Corry has fronted travel shows broadcast in Ireland and the Middle East and is a regular commentator on travel affairs to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and TG4, and an occasional guest contributor to BBC Northern Ireland. He wrote the ten-part series GAA@125, screened on Irish television station TG4 in 2009.[4] He pops up on Tonight with Vincent Browne from time to time to preview the next day's newspapers.

Spelling

His name in the Irish language is Eoghan Ó Comhraí, named for the nineteenth century scholar Eugene O'Curry. The forename is an old Irish name which refers to the yew tree. His name has been mistakenly spelt as Eoin Corry, Owen Corry or Ewan Corrie. [5]

Ciarán Corry

His brother Ciarán Corry (21 July 1956 – 26 April 2011) was the author of the "Last Corncrake" column in the Donegal News.

Select bibliography

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Evening Herald January 7 2011
  2. ↑ Burke, Ray (2005). Press Delete. Dublin, Ireland: Currach Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-1-85607-924-2.
  3. ↑ Portumna CS School Yearbook 2003, Article by Tom Felle
  4. ↑ http://www.tg4.ie/bearla/clar/gaa125/index.asp GAA@125
  5. ↑ Brunker, Amanda (2008). Champagne Kisses. Dublin, Ireland: Transworld Ireland. p. 227. ISBN 978-1-84827-001-5.

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