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  <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Frank Delaney was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and after a fledgling career in banking became a broadcaster with RTE radio and television, the Irish state network, working on documentaries, music programmes and finally as a newsreader. In the mid 1970's he joined the Northern Ireland region of the BBC in Belfast as their current affairs man in Dublin and covered an intense period of the virtual war known as the Irish 'Troubles.' Later, after half a decade of reporting bombings, shootings kidnappings, sieges, he moved to London where, perhaps as an antidote, he began to work in arts broadcasting. Bookshelf, which he inaugurated for BBC Radio Four, became an award winner; on television he wrote films for Omnibus and other arts programmes and in the early 1980's hosted his own talk show, Frank Delaney, featuring an array of cultural and literary personalities.

Among hundreds of other broadcast contributions, Delaney also created Word of Mouth, BBC Radio Four's highly rated show about language, and wrote and presented The Celts, a six part television series, seen in forty countries and still in active video and DVD distribution. Between his BBC radio and television shows, and later his BSBSky/Fox Network international Cable TV show, The Book Show, he has taped interviews with hundreds if not thousands of writers, including most of the significant authors of our time.

Frank Delaney has three sons, Francis, Bryan, and Owen and a granddaughter, Poppy Beatrice. He lives in New York and Litchfield County, Connecticut, with his wife, Diane Meier.
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  <title><![CDATA[Ireland: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tipperary: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shannon: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Legends of the Celts]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[James Joyce's Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of &quot;Ulysses&quot;]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jorge Lewinski]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Amethysts]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sins of the Mothers/A Stranger in their Midst]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Celts Uk]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Desire and Pursuit]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Delaney]]></name>
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