Maurice Walsh
Lecturer
History
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Maurice Walsh grew up in Ireland and worked for The Irish Times in Dublin and Belfast before becoming a correspondent in Central America during the revolutionary upheavals of the 1980s. As a foreign correspondent and documentary maker for the BBC he has reported from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. He has lived in Managua, Santiago and Mexico City. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, Guardian Weekend magazine, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, the New Statesman and many other newspapers and magazines.
Research Interest
His research is focussed on media and culture in the 20th century, particularly the convergence of journalism, political ideas and literary culture. He is currently working on a book about Graham Greene’s travels through the 20th century.
Publications
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“The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan†in Kevin Rafter (ed), Irish Journalism Before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2011) pp 62-79
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“Media and Culture in Ireland 1960-2008†in Richard Bourke and Ian McBride (eds), The Princeton History of Modern Ireland, (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016) pp 253-270
