Hello, my name is Ian Kenneally and welcome to the site. Most recently, I was Historian in Residence for Westmeath County Council and I am also researching a PhD in Irish history at NUI Galway. I recently created an online exhibition charting the 1921 reconnaissance mission to Mount Everest and have completed a commissioned history of Athlone Institute of Technology, published in January 2022. I am currently working on a number of projects in Ireland and the USA, including historical consultancy for 19 Crimes.
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.
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. I provide a weekly column to the Athlone Advertiser and my latest radio documentary is 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.
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.
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. I provide a weekly column to the Athlone Advertiser and my latest radio documentary is 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.