Fergal Keane announced as a speaker at the Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School

 Fergal Keane, author and Special Correspondent for the BBC news, is one of the speakers at the Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School in September. In conversation with author, Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Fergal will share his personal perspectives on his love of literature, music and poetry.

He will discuss how, in his view, the arts contribute to political discourse.  This event will take place at 2pm Saturday 21 September in Cloughjordan. The theme for this year’s programme is inspired by MacDonagh’s central role in the arts and politics of his time, evident in his work as contributor and editor of The Irish Review during its brief run (1911 – 1914).

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Fergal Keane is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents, an award-winning broadcaster and author. He has reported for the corporation from Northern Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Balkans.

He has been awarded a BAFTA, been named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and the Sony Radio Awards, most recently for his Radio 4 series ‘Taking a Stand’.

 Fergal has won the George Orwell prize for literature, the James Cameron Prize and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the US Overseas Press Association. He is the author of a number of bestselling books including Letter to Daniel and his memoir All of These People.

 Of his memoir The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD (Harper Collins, 2023) Fergal’s publishers write “Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is darkest, he made a name for reporting with humanity and empathy from places where death and serious injury were not abstractions, and tragedy often just a moment’s bad luck away.”

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