New book on journalist Emile Dillon by Prof Kevin Rafter
Kevin Rafter, Full Professor of Political Communication at DCU, has launched a new book on trailblazing Irish journalist Emile Joseph Dillon, a witness to some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen - including the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia.
At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern journalism, Dillon rose to prominence as a special correspondent with The Daily Telegraph of London. Dillon was, however, more than a newspaper journalist – he was a university professor, author of books on theology, and an adviser to statesmen; he reported on wars but also helped broker international peace treaties.
Drawing on never-before-seen letters and notebooks, Dillon Rediscovered reveals a previously untold story of a life that transferred from the slum streets of Victorian Dublin to the salons of Tsarist Russia, and a complicated personal life that including marriages in Russia and Bulgaria, a divorce in Paris and family conflict beyond his death in Barcelona in 1933.