Hello, my name is Ian Kenneally and welcome to the site. I am manager and Head of History with Pegasus Consulting, the company behind The History Show on RTÉ Radio One. I also work as the researcher for the show and, currently, am producing a documentary series about 'Fake News' that will be broadcast on RTÉ Radio One in 2024. I am Historian in Residence with Westmeath County Council, a role I held previously between 2020 and 2022. Among other recent projects are the online exhibition charting the 1921 reconnaissance mission to Mount Everest, created for Belvedere House and Gardens, and a commissioned history of AIT, now part of the Technological University of the Shannon, published in 2022.
I received a PhD in Irish history from NUI Galway. Previous books include 'From The Earth, A Cry: the story of John Boyle O'Reilly' (to which the movie rights were recently sold to a US-based production company), 'The Paper Wall: newspapers and propaganda in Ireland 1919-1921', 'Courage and Conflict: forgotten stories of the Irish at War' and The Irish Regional Press, 1892–2018 (co-edited with James O'Donnell). I am currently editing a history of north Wexford and contribute weekly articles to the Athlone Advertiser, among other publications.
I was editor of The Revolution Papers, the very popular weekly series, and I have contributed to a number of collections such as 'Politics, Culture, and the American Press' (Syracuse University Press), 'Irish Journalism before Independence' (Manchester University Press), and the 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution' (Cork University Press), as well as many other books, journals, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. My latest radio documentaries are 'Wreckage and Ruin: scenes from a civil war' and 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.
I received a PhD in Irish history from NUI Galway. Previous books include 'From The Earth, A Cry: the story of John Boyle O'Reilly' (to which the movie rights were recently sold to a US-based production company), 'The Paper Wall: newspapers and propaganda in Ireland 1919-1921', 'Courage and Conflict: forgotten stories of the Irish at War' and The Irish Regional Press, 1892–2018 (co-edited with James O'Donnell). I am currently editing a history of north Wexford and contribute weekly articles to the Athlone Advertiser, among other publications.
I was editor of The Revolution Papers, the very popular weekly series, and I have contributed to a number of collections such as 'Politics, Culture, and the American Press' (Syracuse University Press), 'Irish Journalism before Independence' (Manchester University Press), and the 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution' (Cork University Press), as well as many other books, journals, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. My latest radio documentaries are 'Wreckage and Ruin: scenes from a civil war' and 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.