Eoghan Corry | |
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| Born | (1961-01-19)19 January 1961 (age 64) Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Travel writer |
| Education | Rathmines School of JournalismDublin 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 |
| Spouse | Orla Corry |
Eoghan Corry (Irish:Eoghan Ó Cómhraí; born 19 January 1961) is anIrish journalist and author. He has edited travel sections in national newspapers and travel publications since the 1980s. A former sportswriter and sports editor he has written books on sports history, and was founding story-editor of theGaelic Athletic Association Museum atCroke Park, Dublin, Ireland.
For service to tourism Cory has been designated aKentucky Colonel and a freeman of the city ofBaltimore. Corry was awarded a lifetime "contribution to the industry" award at the Irish Travel Industry Awards in Dublin on 22 January 2016. He received the Business Travel Journalist of the year award in London in October 2015.[1] Previous awards include Irish sportswriter of the year, young journalist of the year, Seamus Kelly award, MacNamee award for coverage of Gaelic Games and short-listing for sports book of the year.
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 fromCounty Clare. He grew up inArdclough,Straffan,County Kildare, Ireland.
Corry was educated atScoil Mhuire, Clane, at theDublin Institute of Technology (DIT) andUniversity College Dublin (UCD). His first published work, as a teenager, was poetry in English and the Irish language in literary magazines and theNew Irish Writing section ofThe Irish Press.
He began his journalistic career as a sportswriter withThe Irish Times andSunday Tribune where he won several awards and became sports editor. Determined to pursue a career outside of sports journalism, he joinedThe Sunday Press as a feature writer in 1985 and became features editor ofThe 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 theDublin Theatre Festival awards.
WhenThe Irish Press closed in 1995 he became Features Editor of the short-livedEvening News, storylined the GAA museum in Croke Park in 1998 and was founding editor ofHigh Ball magazine. Since then he has been a columnist, first withThe Sunday Business Post and then with theEvening Herald andIrish Independent. As a journalism lecturer in theDublin Institute of Technology he told students that "journalism is about p-sing people off".[3]
Eoghan Corry has fronted travel shows broadcast in Ireland and the Middle East and is a regular commentator on travel affairs toRaidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) andTG4, and an occasional guest contributor toBBC Northern Ireland. He wrote the ten-part seriesGAA@125, screened on Irish television station TG4 in 2009.[4]
His brother Ciarán Corry (21 July 1956 – 26 April 2011) was the author of the "Last Corncrake" column in theDonegal News.
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