IAN KENNEALLY - HISTORIAN AND WRITER
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Hello, my name is Ian Kenneally and welcome to the site. Currently, I am Historian in Residence for Westmeath County Council and Head of History with Pegasus Consulting. I recently created an online exhibition charting the 1921 reconnaissance mission to Mount Everest and have completed a commissioned history of AIT, now part of the Technological University of the Shannon, published in January 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 documentary is 'A Tale of Fenian Dreams', an account of the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866.

Copyright, Ian Kenneally - See also johnboyleoreilly.com and revolutionpapers.com
  • Home
  • Books
    • From the Earth, A Cry
    • AIT: a history
    • The Paper Wall
    • Courage & Conflict >
      • John Barry
      • The San Patricios
      • The Irish Battalion of the Papal Army
      • Irish Soldiers of the American Civil War
      • John Philip Holland
      • The Irish who fought at the Little Bighorn
      • John Henry Patterson
      • Mutiny in the Connaught Rangers
      • Dublin's Bloody Sunday
    • The Irish Regional Press, 1892–2018
  • Research and Consultancy
    • 19 Crimes
    • 1921 Expedition to Mount Everest
    • Historian in Residence: 2020 and 2021
    • The Revolution Papers
    • AIT: a history
    • Gorey: a portrait of a town and its hinterland
  • Headlines from History
  • Exhibitions
    • 1921 Expedition to Mount Everest
    • 'Shall the punishment fall on the girl alone'
  • Documentaries
  • Other Projects
    • Atlas of the Irish Revolution
    • The Irish-American Press
    • Irish Journalism before Independence
    • Independent Newspapers: A History
    • War of Independence in the Midlands
    • Periodicals and Journalism in 20th Century Ireland
    • Irish Civil War in the Midlands
  • Gallery
  • Contact