Eamon Delaney

Who is Eamon Delaney?

Eamon Delaney is an Irish author, journalist and former diplomat.

Delaney was a student in University College Dublin. He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986. On leaving college he became an Irish diplomat. Having left the Irish diplomatic corps, he became a full-time author. His first novel was The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy. He later published an account of his eight years as a diplomat, called An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987–1995.

Delaney has also worked as a freelance author for a number of publications, as a writer on television and on foreign affairs. He was editor of the final incarnation of Dublin news and opinion magazine Magill Magazine since its relaunch in late 2004 until its closure in 2009. He has argued that Irish people are "essentially British".

In 2009 Delaney published a book focusing on the life of his late father, the sculptor Edward Delaney entitled Breaking the Mould.