Frank Delaney

Frank Delaney signing books (2008)

Frank Delaney (born October 24, 1942 in Tipperary , Ireland ; † February 21, 2017 in Torrington , Connecticut ) was an Irish author , journalist and presenter who last lived in Litchfield County , Connecticut. He worked long as the BBC correspondent in Dublin , directed a popular literary program and produced successful TV documentaries such as The Celts . He was the author of several non-fiction books, such as Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea , as well as novels such as the New York Times bestseller Ireland .

Career

In 1970 Delaney worked as a newscaster for the Irish state radio and television station RTÉ and then became a reporter for the BBC in Dublin. He covered the unrest in Ireland, known as The Trouble , for five years before moving to London. There he created the award-winning show Bookshelf in 1978 for BBC Radio Four. Here he interviewed over 1400 authors, e. B. Stephen King . In 1980 he served as the literary director of the Edinburgh Festival and hosted his own talk show Frank Delaney . He presented The Book Show on the Sky News satellite channel for several years .

In 1981 Delaney published his first book, James Joyce's Odyssey , which became a bestseller in the UK and Ireland. In 1986 he wrote and presented the six-part documentary series Die Kelten for the BBC and thus the best-selling book accompanying a television documentary. Delaney offered writing tips and competitions on Twitter .

Delaney died in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut in February 2017.

Works (selection)

• The Celts . Hodder and Stoughton, London 1997, ISBN 0-340-34932-8 (television documentation book).
• Ireland: a novel . Time Warner Book Group , London 2004, ISBN 0-316-72597-8 .
  • Frank Delaney: sword and harp . Droemer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-19647-6 (English: Ireland: a novel . Translated by Karin Diemerling).
• Tipperary, A Novel . Random House , New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8129-7596-3 .
• Shannon, A Novel . Random House, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8129-7596-3 .
• The Matchmaker of Kenmare . Random House, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-8129-7974-9 .
• Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea . Random House, New York 2006, ISBN 0-7393-3368-2 .

Web links

• Website by Frank Delaney (English)
• Histo-Couch.de (a German site about Frank Delaney)
• The Celts in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jason Wright, Frank Delaney obituary , in: The Guardian, March 28, 2017, accessed March 29, 2017
2. ↑ Frank Delaney - Author at Droemer Knaur. droemer-knaur.de, accessed on June 3, 2015 . 
3. ^ Frank Delaney: Author and Broadcaster. Retrieved January 26, 2012 (English, paragraph two). 
4. ↑ Frank Delaney / Frank Delaney on Twitter. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
5. ^ President leads tributes after author and broadcaster Frank Delaney dies. ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: kildare-nationalist.ie (English).