Academic biography

Professor Emeritus, B.C.L., Barrister-at-Law, Ph.D. Email: colum.kenny@dcu.ie. A former chair of the DCU Masters in Journalism programme. Member of faculty, School of Communications, DCU, 1982-2015. His more recent publications have included a quartet of related books challenging some myths of the Irish Revolution (full-length character studies of Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera and succinct reviews of the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations and the Civil War). Special interests include media, culture, the environment and history. Awarded in 2018 the gold medal of the Irish Legal History Society. Elected in 2017 an honorary bencher of King's Inns. Won in 2005 the DCU President's Award for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Member of the Irish broadcasting regulator 1998-2003 and 2010-2015. Founding board member of the E.U. Media Desk in Ireland, and member of the Irish government's Media Mergers Advisory Group 2008. A former RTE reporter/presenter, he also produced Ireland's first two independently commissioned current affairs programmes. Long-standing journalist and regular columnist with Irish national newspapers. His Irish-American Odyssey (University of Missouri Press, 2014) is a study of immigrants in the USA with particular reference to a family active in the arts, law and media.