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Frank Delaney

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October 24, 1942 in Tipperary, Ireland

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'The Most Eloquent Man in the World', says NPR, about the writer, broadcaster, BBC host and Booker Prize Judge, Frank Delaney. Over a career that has lasted more than three decades, Delaney, an international-best-selling author himself, has interviewed more than 3,500 of the world's most important writers.

Frank Delaney has earned top prizes and best-seller status in a wide variety of formats, from prolific author, a polished broadcaster on both television and radio, to journalist, correspondent, screenwriter, lecturer, playwright and scholar. He has been the president of the Samuel Johnson Society, president of the UK Book Trust, and the Literary Director of the famed Edinburgh Festival.

A judge of many literary prizes (including the famous...more 'The Most Eloquent Man in the World', says NPR, about the writer, broadcaster, BBC host and Booker Prize Judge, Frank Delaney. Over a career that has lasted more than three decades, Delaney, an international-best-selling author himself, has interviewed more than 3,500 of the world's most important writers.

Frank Delaney has earned top prizes and best-seller status in a wide variety of formats, from prolific author, a polished broadcaster on both television and radio, to journalist, correspondent, screenwriter, lecturer, playwright and scholar. He has been the president of the Samuel Johnson Society, president of the UK Book Trust, and the Literary Director of the famed Edinburgh Festival.

A judge of many literary prizes (including the famous Booker), Delaney also created landmark programs and passionate documentaries on many subjects including Joyce, Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Hemingway, Mailer, Matisse, Van Gogh and the vitality and organic growth of the English language - his famed BBC show on the way we speak, Word of Mouth, is still heard all over the English-speaking world. And his six-part series, The Celts, originally broadcast in forty countries, is still in active DVD distribution, some twenty years after its launch.

Delaney lectures all over the world, writes every day, and has created a significant podcast series: Re: Joyce, deconstructing, examining and illuminating James Joyce's Ulysses line-by-line, in accessible and entertaining five-minute broadcasts, posted each week on this website. The project is estimated to run a quarter of a century.

Born and raised in County Tipperary, Ireland, Delaney spent more than twenty-five years in England before moving to the United States in 2002. His first 'American' book was the New York Times Bestseller, Ireland. His second, the non-fiction Simple Courage, was chosen as one of the top five books of the year by the American Library Association. Since 2006, he has published five Novels of Ireland, all addressing, decade by decade, the twentieth century history of his homeland.

Delaney lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut, with his wife, writer and marketer, Diane Meier.(less)

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Books by Frank Delaney

Average rating: 3.81 · 4,502 ratings · 1,218 reviews · 46 distinct works

	Ireland 3.92 avg rating — 2,366 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Tipperary 3.61 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Shannon: A Novel 3.84 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Matchmaker Of Kenmare: A Novel Of Ireland 3.40 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel Of Ireland 3.63 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland 4.02 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea 3.76 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Legends of the Celts 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Amethysts 3.29 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Druid 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Frank Delaney is now friends with Kate Sherrod
May 28, 2012 07:49pm
Frank Delaney said "yes" to attending the event: Occupy Ulysses! date: January 25, 2012 11:00AM location: Madison Square Park, New York City , The United States description: "Ulysses" is now in the public domain and in celebration of this, and James Joyce's birthday, Frank Delaney is taking "Ulysses" to the people and the park! At 11am this Wednesday January 25th, Frank Delaney will read aloud from "Ulysses" to the public in Madison Square Park. Each year he'll read the amount of text his Re:Joyce podcast has covered - (in this case, thirty-five pages). And he'll be back next year and the year after that - for the next twenty-five, or so, years. So join fellow Ulyss...more
Jan 24, 2012 12:53pm

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Quotes by Frank Delaney

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker Of Kenmare: A Novel Of Ireland

tags: friendship , love , the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

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“Every pain is a lesson.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker Of Kenmare: A Novel Of Ireland

tags: learning , lesson , lessons , pain , perseverance , the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

13 people liked it

“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker Of Kenmare: A Novel Of Ireland

tags: difficulties , life , perseverance , the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

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What do we want to do for our Ireland Historical Read in March?

The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd

9 votes 26.5%

1916 A Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn

8 votes 23.5%

Cashelmara by Susan Howatch

8 votes 23.5%

Trinity by Leon Uris

4 votes 11.8%

Ireland A Novel by Frank Delaney

3 votes 8.8%

Death and Nightingales by Eugene Mccabe

2 votes 5.9%

34 total votes

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