Eamonn McCann

Last updated

McCann currently writes for the Belfast Telegraph , The Irish Times and the Derry Journal . He has written a column for the Dublin-based magazine Hot Press , and is a frequent commentator on the BBC, RTÉ and other broadcast media. He worked as a journalist for the Sunday World newspaper and contributed to the original In Dublin magazine, among others. [21] [22] [23]

Much of his journalistic work reflects what he himself describes [24] as a "shuddering fascination" with religion which, when coupled with his profound skepticism, has made it a topic to which he has often returned. [22] [25]

In March 2008, McCann spoke with National Public Radio in the United States about the solidarity between the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and the civil rights movement in the U.S. [26]

In March 2014, following Crimea's referendum on joining Russia, McCann had a piece published in The Irish Times on the situation there. He commented: "After six years in office, Obama believes he has a right to invade anywhere, bomb anything, kill anybody whose jib the CIA doesn't like the cut of, irrespective of national or international law or, indeed, of the provisions of the US constitution. And now he lectures Putin on the necessity of 'respecting international law'. He has a nerve." In the same piece, he wrote: "Vladimir Putin may run a vicious regime but the people of Crimea have a right to be accepted as Russian if that's what they want, which evidently they do", [27] and added: "Putin is right that the main motivation of the US and NATO has been to encircle and enfeeble his country. It might be a close-run thing, but in this instance, Russia has more right on its side than the West". [27]

In 2021, McCann was interviewed during the Docs Ireland documentary festival in Belfast, following a screening of his appearance on After Dark. [28]

List of works

He has also edited two books on Bloody Sunday:

Personal life

McCann was the partner of Mary Holland (1935–2004), a journalist who worked for The Observer and The Irish Times. He has a daughter from that relationship, Kitty, who is now a journalist for The Irish Times, and a son, Luke, who works for the US-based human rights think tank The Center for Economic and Social Rights. The academic and activist Goretti Horgan has been his partner since the mid-1980s and they have an adult daughter, Matty. [29]

McCann is a supporter of Derry City F.C. [30] In the 2002 film Bloody Sunday , McCann was played by Irish actor Gerard Crossan. [31]

References

  1. "Mr Eamonn McCann". Northern Ireland Assembly. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. "Eamonn McCann: Civil rights legacy marches on". Eolas. October 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  3. "The History of the Literific". The Literific. 2 August 2018. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  4. 'Red Lines: The Eamonn McCann Interview. BBC Northern Ireland, 23 August 2023, retrieved 24 August 2023
  5. Cassidy, John. "Eamonn McCann, Ulster's Bernie Sanders, becomes an MLA at 73". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. "Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Boroughs: Londonderry". Archived from the original on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Raytheon 6 cleared". Derry Journal . 11 June 2008. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  8. "Price offers to help locate 'disappeared'". The Irish Times . 19 February 2010. Archived from the original on 26 January 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  9. "Arrest Adams Now". Sunday Life . 21 February 2010.
  10. "Boston College IRA interviews update". WBUR-FM . Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  11. "McConville relative raps socialist for Dolours Price tribute". The News Letter . 30 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  12. "Foyle – Northern Ireland Assembly constituency – Election 2016". BBC News . Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  13. "Carroll and McCann align themselves to Tory right wingers - Maskey". www.sinnfein.ie. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  14. McClements, Freya. "Ex-speaker for dissident republican group Gary Donnelly tops Derry poll". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  15. "Tributes as Eamonn McCann quits Derry council on health grounds". Belfasttelegraph. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021 via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
  16. "The Paul Foot Award | Private Eye Online". www.private-eye.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  17. "Bloody Sunday: A very British atrocity". Socialist Review. Archived from the original on 28 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  18. "Eamonn McCann: 'I know soldiers will be prosecuted for Bloody Sunday'". belfasttelegraph. ISSN   0307-1235. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  19. McCann, Eamonn (15 March 2019). "Bloody Sunday was a very British atrocity – the top brass got away with it | Eamonn McCann". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  20. "16 June 2010". The Media Show. 16 June 2010. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  21. "Eamonn McCann". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  22. 1 2 "Eamonn McCann". Belfast Telegraph . Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  23. "Hot Press columnist Eamonn McCann elected to Stormont". Hot Press . 7 May 2016. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  24. Dear God: The Price of Religion in Ireland (Paperback) by Eamonn McCann, Bookmarks (10 November 1999); ISBN   1-898876-58-4; ISBN   978-1-898876-58-8
  25. "Archives". Hot Press. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  26. Tewksbury, Drew (17 March 2008). "N. Ireland and the U.S.: A Shared Civil Rights Struggle". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
  27. 1 2 "If we have to pick a side over Crimea, let it be Russia". The Irish Times. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  28. 'Docs Ireland to host ‘Derry Days’ celebration Archived 19 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine ', Derry Journal ,18 August 2021, accessed 19 August 2021
  29. "Biography". Eamonn McCann. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  30. Mahon, Eddie (1998), Derry City, Guildhall Press, p. 83.
  31. "Bloody Sunday (film details)". IMDb . Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann, Foyle MLA 2016.jpg
McCann in 2016
Member of Derry City and Strabane District Council
In office
2 May 2019 1 March 2021
Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by MLA for Foyle
2016–2017
Seat abolished