Communications

Biographical Details:

Born Tralee, Co. Kerry, 26 October 1940. Education: St Gerard's, Bray, Co Wicklow; Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick; University College, Dublin; University College, Cork (BA 1962, PhD 1997); The Law Society, Dublin. Employment: Evening Press (1962), Catholic Herald (1962-63), Irish Times (1963-1976). Editor, Education Times (1973-76). Member, Seanad Eireann, 1969-77; Dáil Eireann, 1977-81; European Parliament 1982-83. Dublin City University, 1983-2006. Member of: Interim Radio Commission (1985-87), Commission on the Newspaper Industry (1995-96), Forum on Broadcasting (2002). Fellow, Center for International Relations, Harvard University (1987-88). Jean Monnet Research Professor, European University Institute, Florence (2002). Appointed Press Ombudsman by the Press Council of Ireland (2007).

Research Interests:

Journalism, Media, Media History, Media Ethics, Political Economy of Media; 20th Century Irish History and Biography.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Horgan, J. and Harcourt, A. 2003. The role of the media in Central Europe and in Europe: exordium to the special issue on Governance, Enlargement and the Media. Central European Political Science Review, 4, (11), pp6-15.
• Horgan J. 2002. Journalists and Censorship: a case history of the NUJ in Ireland and the broadcasting ban 1971-94. Journalism Studies, 3 (3),, pp377-392.
• Horgan J. 2000. Anti-Communism and Media Surveillance in Ireland 1948-50. Irish Communications Review, 8,, pp30-34.
• Horgan J. 1999. Irish Foreign Policy, Northern Ireland, Neutrality and the Commonwealth: the Historical Roots of a Current Controversy. Irish Studies In International Affairs, 1,, pp135-147.
• Horgan J. 1998. The life of O'Reilly. British Journalism Review, 9 (2),, pp29-35.
• Horgan J. 1998. Arms dumps and the IRA 1923-32 (Attempts by the new Irish Free State government to disarm the IRA at the end of the civil war in 1923). History Today, 48,, pp11-16.
• Horgan J. 1995. Saving Us from Ourselves: contraception, censorship and the evil literature controversy of 1926.. Irish Communications Review, 5,, pp61-68.
• Horgan J. 1993. Government, Propaganda and the Irish News Agency. Irish Communications Review, 3,, pp31-43.
• Horgan, J. 1987. Africa and Ireland: aspects of a media agenda. Trocaire Development Review, 2,, pp17-30.
• Horgan J. 1985. Die Zukunft Nordirlands om Lichte des Abkommens zwischen Grossbritannien und der Republic Irland. Europ-archiv, 41 (10),, pp275-284.

Selected Books

• Horgan J. Mary Robinson an independent voice 2nd Edition, O'Brien Press, 2007.
• Horgan J. Broadcasting and Public Life: News and Current Affairs in Radio Telefis Eireann, Four Courts, 2004.
• Horgan J. Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922, Routledge, 2001.
• Horgan J. Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider, Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
• Horgan J. Sean Lemass - the Enigmatic Patriot, Gill & MacMillan, 1997.
• Horgan J. Labour the price of power, Gill & Macmillan, 1986.
• Horgan J and Flannery A (eds). Humanae Vitae and the Bishops: the encyclical and the statements of the National Hierarchies, Irish University Press, 1972.
• Horgan J. The Church Among the People, Pflaum, 1969.
• Horgan J. (trans.). The Last revolution, Gill & Son, 1965.

Selected Chapters

• Horgan, J.. 2003. Churches, Governments and the Media: Confronting their own and each other's responsibilities. Religion and Politics in Ireland at the turn of the millennium, pp228-240.
• Horgan J. 2001. 'Government sources said last night . . .': the development of the parliamentary press lobby in modern Ireland. Information, media and Power through the Ages, pp259-272.
• Horgan J. 2001. Newspaper Ownership in Ireland and its Effects on Media Diversity: the Commission on the Newspaper Industry Revisited. Media and the Marketplace: Ethical perspectives (ed. Eoin Cassidy and Andrew McGrady), pp45-58.
• Horgan J. 2000. The Media and The State: Television and The Press 1949-1999. Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, politics 1949-1999, pp242-263.
• Horgan J. 1999. The Media and the Enemies of Truth. New Century, new Society (ed. Dermot Lane), pp93-102.
• Horgan J. 1996. Sean Lemass: A Man in a Hurry. Taking the Long View: 70 years of Fianna Fail, pp36-45.
• Horgan, J.. 1989. English: an external perspective. The Changing Curriculum: perspectives on the Junior Certificate (ed. Tony Crooks), pp79-84.
• Horgan J. 1968. The History of the Debate. On Human Life: an examination of 'Humanae Vitae', pp7-27.

Reviews

• Horgan, John. 2003. "James Larkin". Irish Political Studies, (18)1, pp136-137.
• Horgan J. 2002. "2RN and the origins of Irish radio", by Richard Pine. Irish Economic And And Social History, XX1X, pp181-182.
• Horgan J. 2001. "Peadar O'Donnell", by Donal O Drisceoil. Irish Political Studies, 16, pp271-272.
• Horgan J. 1999. "Clann na Poblachta", by Eithne MacDermott, and "A Makeshift Majority" by Kevin McCullagh. Irish Political Studies, 14, pp166-168.

• Horgan J, Leading and following public opinion: role of the media, communicators and education, EU Enlargement and Integration: Linking Civil Society, the Citizen and the State, 03-NOV-01 - 05-NOV-01, Berlin
• Horgan J, The evolution and dynamics of the Government Information Bureau 1933-99., Irish Historical Studies Association Conference, 01-JUN-99 - 03-JUN-99, University College Cork
• Horgan J, Sean Lemass's Northern Policy, Irish Association Annual Conference, 06-NOV-98 - 06-NOV-98, Belfast
• Horgan J, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: UK media and the Irish market., Second Conference on the Press, 02-FEB-95 - 04-FEB-95, City University, London
• Horgan J, Issues and policies relationt to the National Archives of Ireland, The National Archives Today, 26-OCT-66 - 26-OCT-66, National Archives, Dublin