Hello, my name is Ian Kenneally and welcome to the site. I am manager of Pegasus Media, the company behind The History Show on RTÉ Radio One. I also work as the researcher for that show. I recently was executive producer for the RTÉ Radio series Fake News and Irish Freedom and am executive producer on the RTÉ Radio shows, Dunne Talking (an eight-part series hosted by former world champion boxer Bernard Dunne) and From Ireland to the Stars (an astronomy, space exploration and science series).
Until recently, I was Historian in Residence with Westmeath County Council, a role I held between 2020 and 2024. 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 sold to a US 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 have contributed to a wide range of publications.
I was editor of The Revolution Papers, the very popular weekly magazine 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), the 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution', and the 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War' (both Cork University Press), as well as many other books, journals, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. My latest radio documentaries are 'Fake News and Irish Freedom', 'Wreckage and Ruin: scenes from a civil war' and 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.
Until recently, I was Historian in Residence with Westmeath County Council, a role I held between 2020 and 2024. 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 sold to a US 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 have contributed to a wide range of publications.
I was editor of The Revolution Papers, the very popular weekly magazine 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), the 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution', and the 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War' (both Cork University Press), as well as many other books, journals, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. My latest radio documentaries are 'Fake News and Irish Freedom', 'Wreckage and Ruin: scenes from a civil war' and 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.