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About Eamon Delaney
- Eamon Delaney (born 14 July 1962) is an Irish newspaper columnist, author, editor, novelist, journalist and former diplomat.
- Delaney's best-selling memoir of life as an Irish diplomat produced a series of public scandals about the conduct of Ireland's foreign affairs.Delaney attended University College Dublin (UCD).
- He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986.
- He served Ireland as a diplomat from 1987 until 1995.
- after leaving the diplomatic corps, he became a full-time author; his first novel, The Casting of Mr.
- O'Shaughnessy was published in 1985, and republished in 2002.
- His next book, an account of his eight years as a diplomat, An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987–1995 was widely discussed.
- Irish journalist Thomas O'Dwyer describes Delaney's wit as "wicked" and his 2001 book An Accidental Diplomat as having been, "a runaway bestseller." Delaney writes for the Irish Independent, and on an occasional basis for The Irish Times and other outlets. In 2004 Delaney was named editor of the Dublin news and opinion magazine, Magill Magazine, a position that continued until its closure in 2009.In 2009 Delaney published a book focusing on the life of his late father, the sculptor Edward Delaney entitled Breaking the Mould.
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