Conor O'Clery

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Conor O'Clery is an Irish journalist and writer.

Background

Born in Belfast, Conor O'Clery graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1972. He was deputy editor of The Gown, the QUB student newspaper.

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Career

O'Clery worked for The Irish Times for over 30 years in various positions, including news editor and foreign correspondent based in London, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Beijing and New York City. [1]

He wrote for The New Republic from Moscow, contributed columns to Newsweek International , and has been a frequent commentator on broadcast channels BBC, NPR and CNN.

O'Clery won several awards, including Journalist of the Year, twice, in Ireland: first, in 1987, for his reporting of the Soviet Union, and secondly, in 2002, for reporting the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, which he witnessed from his office three blocks away. [2]

O'Clery has written a number of books.

He lives in Dublin with his Russian-born Armenian wife, Zhanna. [3] His book, The Shoemaker and his Daughter, tells the story of Zhanna's family, an ordinary Soviet family, from World War 1 to the fall of the Soviet Union and won the 2020 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. [4]

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References

  1. "Irish Times to open Beijing bureau". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  2. "Win a pair of tickets to Robert Fisk in Conversation with Conor O'Clery". www.irishtimes.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  3. "Interview with two time Irish journalist of the year". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  4. "Conor O'Clery wins 2020 Michel Déon Prize". www.booksirelandmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.