Kevin myers irish times biography
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Kevin Myers
Life
; b. 30 March, b. Leicester, son of an Irish doctor and his Irish wife; raised in England; lost his father in teenage years [aetat. 15] while at Ratcliffe Coll., a Catholic minor public school; continued with assistance from Education Authority and the shcool; accepted by UCD [Dublin] as part of foreign student quota on 2 A levels (GCE) after his mother wrote to Prof.Kevin myers irish times biographyJames Hogan, a family friend, ; grad. in History; worked on Newsight and then at RTÉ; journalist in Belfast during the s, returning to Dublin to take up the Irishmans Diary column at The Irish Times, frequently devoted to remembrance of the forgotten Irish soldiers of World War I and victims of republican violence both in the War of Independence () and the Northern Irish crisis; presented Challenging Times on RTE in the s; served as member of Film Classification Appeals Board [ie. reformed censorship]; travelled to Split and Sarajevo for The Irish Times, June ; m |