Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Hugh O'Shaughnessy (born 21 January 1935) is an Irish journalist and writer.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy was educated at Worcester College, Oxford where he received a BA in Modern Languages. He has written for over 40 years for major newspapers including The Economist, The Observer, The Independent, The Irish Times, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian; and he has made many reports for BBC News. O'Shaughnessy has published a number of books and articles focusing on Latin American politics, making many trips to Central and South America in order to study social and political issues. He was a friend of Chilean president Salvador Allende. He is also the author of commentaries on the politics of Catholicism.^[1][2][3] He is founder of the Latin America Bureau.^[4]

O'Shaughnessy has several awards, including two British Press Awards, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot prize for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from the city of Hull. He has been recognised by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.^[5][6][7]

He lives in London. He married Georgina Alliston (1937-2011, daughter of architect Jane Drew) in 1961, and they had four children.

Publications

• Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Edgar Venerando Ruiz Díaz The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the making of a nation, Zed Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-8481-3312-9 ISBN 978-1-8481-3313-6 ISBN 978-1-8481-3314-3
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy, with Sue Branford Chemical Warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation Latin America Bureau (2005) ISBN 978-1-8993-6568-5
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, Latin America Bureau (1999) ISBN 978-1-8993-6541-8 also NYU Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8147-6201-1
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy East Timor? Getting Away With Murder, London, British Coalition for East Timor (1994) ISBN 978-0-9523-1860-6
• Geoff Spink (ed.) The Best of "From Our Own Correspondent" v.4, BBC (1993) Transcript of radio journalism including Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Latin America ISBN 978-1-8504-3783-3
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Around the Spanish Main: Travels in the Caribbean and the Guianas, Ebury Press (1991) ISBN 978-0-7126-3807-4
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Latin Americans, BBC Books (1988) ISBN 978-0-5632-1393-2
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: An Eyewitness Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History That provoked it, Dodd Mead (1985) ISBN 978-0-3960-8524-9
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath, Sphere Books (1984) ISBN 978-0-7221-6561-4 also Hamish Hamilton (1984) ISBN 978-0-2411-1290-8
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Towards a Democratic Central America, Fabian Society tract (1984) ISBN 978-0-7163-0499-9
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Oil in Latin America, Financial Times (1976) ISBN 978-0-9006-7163-0
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy What Future for the Amerindians of South America?, Minority Rights Group report (1973) ISBN 978-0-9031-1415-8
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Engagement to Europe, Open Library, Liberal Publications Dept (1965) OL20273667M

References

1. The Guardian, 17 May 2010. An example of reform. Who can claim Cardinal Newman?
2. The Tablet, 25 January 2014. Cuba libre
3. The Guardian, 4 January 2011. The sins of the Argentinian church
4. Latin America Bureau
5. Hugh O'Shaughnessy, CounterPunch, 20 May 2006, A Discourse of Third World Hope: Chavez Takes London
6. http://www.journalisted.com/hugh-oshaughnessy
7. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Priest-Paraguay-Hugh-OShaughnessy/dp/1848133138

External links

• The Independent, 5 October 2014 Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Jean-Claude Duvalier, former President of Haiti
• Zoominfo Hugh O'Shaughnessy. Journalist and Author
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy on IMDb Cold War: TV Mini-Series documentary (1998)
• Hugh O'Shaughlessy's LinkedIn page
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy interviewed (30 August 2009) by George Galloway on The Priest of Paraguay
• The Guardian 5 February 2000 Case for the prosecution. Review by Nicholas Lezard on Pinochet: The Politics of Torture. "Nicholas Lezard is minded to make Hugh O'Shaughnessy's book on the damning evidence against Augusto Pinochet required reading"
• Exposé Reveals Little Review by Hugh O'Shaughnessy of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program by Larry Siems
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Journalisted