He also edited many compilations of essays and poetry.ĭelaney wrote the screenplay for an adaptation of Goodbye, Mr. He subsequently wrote five books of non-fiction (including Simple Courage), ten novels (including Ireland, Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show and Tipperary), one novella, and a number of short stories. He wrote and presented the six-part documentary series The Celts (1987) for the BBC, and wrote the accompanying book. He presented The Book Show on the Sky News satellite channel for many years.ĭelaney's first book, James Joyce's Odyssey (1981), was well received and became a best-seller in the UK and Ireland. Afterward, he created and presented Word of Mouth, the BBC's radio programme about language, as well as a variety of radio and television documentaries including specials on James Joyce, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway in Paris, and the Shakespeare industry. He served as the Literature Director of the Edinburgh Festival in 1980, and hosted his own talk show Frank Delaney in the early 1980s, which featured many cultural and literary personalities. On television, Delaney wrote and presented for Omnibus, the BBC's weekly arts series. Over the next five-and-a-half years he interviewed over 1,400 authors, including Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen King. In 1978 he created the weekly Bookshelf programme for BBC Radio 4, which covered books, writers and the business of publishing. In the early 1970s he became a news reporter for the BBC in Dublin, and covered an intense period of violence known as the Troubles.Īfter five years of reporting on the violence, he moved to London to work in arts broadcasting. He was born in Thomastown, Tipperary, Ireland.ĭelaney began working as a newsreader for the Irish state radio and television network RTÉ in 1970.
He was the author of The New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections.
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the SeaĮilish Kellier, Susan Collier, Salley Vickers, Dana Mayorįrancis James Joseph Raphael Delaney (24 October 1942 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
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