Dr Harry Browne

Biography

Harry Browne is a Lecturer in the School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology, as well as an activist and journalist. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including CounterPunch, the Irish Times, Village magazine, the Sunday Times, Irish Daily Mail, Evening Herald, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Business Post and The Dubliner. Books, academic writing and some essays are detailed below. He has made numerous appearances as a guest on radio and television programmes and was a founding member in 1989 of the Irish Critical Studies Group, served on the steering committee of the Irish Anti-War Movement in 2003-04 and is a member of Gaza Action Ireland. He has been a consulting editor on the multicultural newspaper Metro Eireann and coordinated the print-syndication project of the CTMP-led Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS). His history research at Harvard (BA) and Columbia (MA) addressed Irish migrants in Britain and the US, and he has also studied US-based Italian-language journalism from the early 20th century. Born in Italy in 1963, he grew up in the United States with activist parents: his mother, Flavia Alaya, is a historic-preservationist who has also campaigned for rights for immigrant detainees; his father, Henry J Browne (who died in 1980), was a radical priest in New York City.

Research Interest

Migration and Communications Wiles of the Wireless US-based Italian-language journalism