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Conor O'Clery is an
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journalist and writer.


Background

Born in
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, Conor O'Clery graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1972. He was deputy editor of
The Gown ''The Gown'' is the student newspaper at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was formed by Richard Herman, a medical student, in April 1955. In 2005 Dr. Herman attended the paper's 50th Anniversary. The paper is run voluntarily ...
, the QUB student newspaper.


Career

O'Clery worked for ''
The Irish Times ''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper ...
'' for over 30 years in various positions, including news editor and foreign correspondent based in
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,
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and
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. He wrote for ''
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'' from Moscow, contributed columns to ''
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'', and has been a frequent commentator on broadcast channels
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. O'Clery won several awards, including Journalist of the Year, twice, in Ireland: first, in 1987, for his reporting of the Soviet Union, and secondly, in 2002, for reporting the
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on the
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in New York, which he witnessed from his office three blocks away. O'Clery has written a number of books. He lives in
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with his
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n-born
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n wife, Zhanna. His book, ''The Shoemaker and his Daughter'', tells the story of Zhanna's family, an ordinary Soviet family, from World War 1 to the fall of the Soviet Union and won the 2020 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.


Bibliography

* ''The Shoemaker and his Daughter'', August 2018 * ''The Star Man'', 2016 * ''Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union'', 2011 * ''May You Live in Interesting Times'', 2008 * ''The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune'', 2007 * ''Panic at the Bank: How
John Rusnak John Rusnak is a former currency trader at Allfirst bank, then part of AIB Group, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. On January 17, 2003 he was sentenced to years in prison for hiding US$691 million in losses at the bank in 2002, after bad b ...
Lost AIB $700 Million'' (co-authored with
Siobhan Creaton Siobhán is a female given name of Irish origin. The most common anglicisations are Siobhan (identical to the Irish spelling but omitting the acute accent over the 'a'), Shevaun and Shivaun. A now uncommon spelling variant is Siubhán. It is de ...
), 2002 * ''Ireland in Quotes: A History of the Twentieth Century'', 1999 * ''The Greening of the
White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in ...
'', 1997 * ''Daring Diplomacy: Clinton's Secret Search for Peace in Ireland'', 1997 * ''America, A Place Called Hope?'', 1993 * ''Melting Snow: An Irishman in Moscow'', 1991 * ''Phrases Make History Here: Century of Irish Political Quotations, 1886-1986''


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oclery, Conor Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Irish newspaper editors Journalists from Belfast Journalists from Dublin (city) The Irish Times people Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland