Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Hugh O'Shaughnessy (born 21 January 1935) is an Irish journalist and writer.
Hugh O'Shaughnessy was educated at Worcester College, Oxford where he received a BA in Modern Languages. For over 40 years he has written for major newspapers including The Economist, The Observer, The Independent, The Irish Times, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian; and he has made many reports for BBC News. O'Shaughnessy has published a number of books and articles focusing on Latin American politics, making many trips to Central and South America to study social and political issues. He was a friend of Chilean president Salvador Allende. He is also the author of commentaries on the politics of Catholicism.[1][2][3] He is founder of the Latin America Bureau.[4]
O'Shaughnessy has several awards, including two British Press Awards, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot prize for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from the city of Hull. He has been recognised by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.[5][6][7]
He lives in London. He married Georgina Alliston (1937–2011, daughter of architect Jane Drew) in 1961, and they had four children.[citation needed]
Publications
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Engagement to Europe, Open Library, Liberal Publications Dept (1965) OL20273667M
- Kris E. Lane, foreword by Hugh O'Shaughnessy Blood and Silver: the history of piracy in the Caribbean and Central America, Oxford, Signal (1967) and (1999) ISBN 978-1-9026-6900-7
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy What future for the Amerindians of South America?, Minority Rights Group report (1973) ISBN 978-0-9031-1415-8
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Oil in Latin America, Financial Times (1976) ISBN 978-0-9006-7163-0
- Jan Karmali, Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Andrew Pollak Nicaragua: dictatorship and revolution, Latin America Bureau (1979)
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Relations with Central American and Caribbean countries, Enstone, Oxon: Ditchley Foundation (1981)
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Towards a Democratic Central America, Fabian Society (1984) ISBN 978-0-7163-0499-9
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: revolution, invasion and aftermath, Sphere Books (1984) ISBN 978-0-7221-6561-4 also Hamish Hamilton (1984) ISBN 978-0-2411-1290-8
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: An eyewitness account of the US Invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it, Dodd Mead (1985) ISBN 978-0-3960-8524-9
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Latin Americans, BBC Books (1988) ISBN 978-0-5632-1393-2
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Around the Spanish Main: Travels in the Caribbean and the Guianas, Ebury Press (1991) ISBN 978-0-7126-3807-4
- Geoff Spink (ed.) The best of "From Our Own Correspondent" v.4, BBC (1993) Transcript of radio journalism including Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Latin America ISBN 978-1-8504-3783-3
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy East Timor: getting away with murder?, London, British Coalition for East Timor (1994) ISBN 978-0-9523-1860-6
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Brazilian energy: privatisation and the market, London, Financial Times Energy Publishing (c1997)
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Mexican energy: a Market in transition, London, Financial Times Energy Publishing (c1998)
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, Latin America Bureau (1999) ISBN 978-1-8993-6541-8 also NYU Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8147-6201-1
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy, with Sue Branford Chemical warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation Latin America Bureau (2005) ISBN 978-1-8993-6568-5
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy and F. Goldman Taking on the rich: the art of political murder, New Statesman (2008)
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Edgar Venerando Ruiz Díaz The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the making of a nation, Zed Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-8481-3312-9 ISBN 978-1-8481-3313-6 ISBN 978-1-8481-3314-3
References
- ^ The Guardian, 17 May 2010. An example of reform. Who can claim Cardinal Newman?
- ^ The Tablet, 25 January 2014. Cuba libre
- ^ The Guardian, 4 January 2011. The sins of the Argentinian church
- ^ Latin America Bureau
- ^ Hugh O'Shaughnessy, CounterPunch, 20 May 2006, A Discourse of Third World Hope: Chavez Takes London
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Priest-Paraguay-Hugh-OShaughnessy/dp/1848133138
External links
- The Independent, 5 October 2014 Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Jean-Claude Duvalier, former President of Haiti
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy at IMDb
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy interviewed (30 August 2009) by George Galloway on The Priest of Paraguay
- The Guardian 5 February 2000 Case for the prosecution. Review by Nicholas Lezard on Pinochet: The Politics of Torture. "Nicholas Lezard is minded to make Hugh O'Shaughnessy's book on the damning evidence against Augusto Pinochet required reading"
- Exposé Reveals Little Review by Hugh O'Shaughnessy of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program by Larry Siems
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Journalisted
