Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice

Harry Browne

Lecturer in Journalism

MA History (Columbia University, New York City)
Graduate Diploma in Journalism (Dublin City University)

P: +353-1-4023146
E: harry.browne@dit.ie
Campus: Aungier Street

Harry Browne is a Lecturer in the School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology, as well as an activist and journalist. He worked in The Irish Times for 12 years, and has had his work published in numerous other publications, including Village magazine (where he writes a column), the Sunday Times, Irish Daily Mail, Evening Herald, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Business Post and The Dubliner. Academic work and essays have appeared in Dublin Review, Irish Review, Irish Marketing Journal, Irish Journal of Sociology, Saothar (the Irish Labour History Review), Trocaire Development Review and in the book/DVD, Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice. He has made numerous appearances as a guest on radio and television programmes - his radio-essay on Thanksgiving appears in the anthology Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2004-06 - and he contributes to the Counterpunch website. He was a founding member in 1989 of the Irish Critical Studies Group, served on the steering committee of the Irish Anti-War Movement in 2003-04 and is a member of Anti-War Ireland. He has been a consulting editor on the multicultural newspaper Metro Eireann, and he is co-ordinating the print-syndication project of the CTMP-led Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS). His history dissertations at Harvard (BA) and Columbia (MA) addressed migration-related topics, and he has studied US-based Italian-language media from the early 20th century. He is pursuing a PhD in the Department of English, Theatre and Media Studies at NUI Maynooth. His account of the 'Shannon Five' anti-war activists titled Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disable a US War-Plane - with Ireland's Blessing (2008), was published in the United States by Counterpunch Books and AK press. Born in Italy in 1963, he grew up in the United States with activist parents. His mother, Flavia Alaya, has recently campaigned for rights for immigrant detainees; his father, Henry J Browne (who died in 1980), was a radical priest in New York City.

Selected Publications

2008
'Where Will they Get the Fish?' Dublin Review 33:47-73.

Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares Disabled a US War-Plane - with Ireland's Blessing (Petrolia: Counterpunch and AK Press).

2007
Browne, H. and Onyejelem, C. ‘Home from Home: Sounding Out a New Ireland', in A. Grossman and A. O'Brien (eds), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (London: Wallflower Press).

2006
‘Lawful Excuse: In the Hangar with the Shannon Five', Dublin Review 25: 5-25.

‘Territorial Waters: Shell and Irish Ferries', Dublin Review 21: 68-81.

2005
‘Document Study: The Northern Star, English Chartism and Irish politics, 1845-48', Saothar (Journal of the Irish Labour History Society) 29: 67-76.

2004
‘Wiles of the Wireless: Radio and Critical Discourse in Ireland', Irish Review 32: 69-76.

‘Consenting to Capital in the Irish Media', Irish Journal of Sociology 13:2: 129-141.

2003
'Reading the US National Security Strategy', Dublin Review 10: 61-70.

2002
‘Barrier Methods: Immigration controls in Ireland', Dublin Review 8: 5-17.

‘Sunday, Bloody Sunday: The Bloody Sunday films', Dublin Review 6: 11-20.

Conference Papers and Seminars

2009
'The Promise and Threat of Foundation-Funded Journalism', Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff University, UK.

'The Catholic Worker in Ireland: Seed on Stony Ground', Catholicism and Public Cultures Conference, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laogharie, Ireland.

'Should We Be Worried about Foundation-Funded Journalism', Journalism in Crisis Conference, University of Westminster, UK, in association with British Journalism Review.

2006
Browne, H. et al, ‘From Boston to Baghdad? Discourses of US Interest and Irish Exceptionality in Irish Press Coverage of the Iraq War', Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, The US and Iraq: Reflections and Projections Conference.

Media Appearances

2002-2010
Nationally Broadcast Shows (Television and Radio):

RTE TV: Questions and Answers; The View; Seioge and O'Shea; News 2; Imprint; Midnight Court.
TV3: Ireland a.m.
RTE Radio 1: Morning Ireland; Ryan Turbridy; Marian Finucane Show; Today with Pat Kenny; Sunday Miscellany; Morning Glory.
2FM: Gerry Ryan.
TODAY FM: The Last Word.
NEWSTALK: The Breakfast Show; The Wide Angle.

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