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Andy O’Mahony is an Irish broadcast journalist who worked for RTÉ (Raidio Telefís Éireann) from 1961 to 2013.〔Irish Independent review of Off the Shelf by John Boland (9 November 2013): 'Bookworm: O'Mahony has retired and RTÉ is the poorer for that' http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/bookworm-omahony-has-retired-and-rt-is-the-poorer-for-that-29738688.html〕 He was one of the network's first television news anchors, and thereafter was a radio and television host of various long-running series. He also made radio and television programmes for BBC between 1977 and 1988, including a number of television arts documentaries for BBC2.〔Preview of television documentary about John McCormack, Sunday Tribune, 19 February 1984〕 The programmes he was most closely identified with over the years consisted of a number of book-based radio series for RTÉ. Series such as ''Books and Company'', ''Off The Shelf'' and ''Dialogue'' provided a regular forum for the discussion of ideas in economics, politics and culture. 〔''Sunday Times'' interview with Liam Fay, (22 October 2000): ‘How to be a maverick but live by the book’ http://www.sundaytimes.ie〕〔"Sunday Times" review of Off The Shelf by Gerry McCarthy, (7 May 2006): ‘Book Value’ http://www.sundaytimes.ie〕 〔''Sunday Independent'' profile by Declan Lynch, (24 November 1996): ‘Brainstorming with intellectual Andy’ http://www.independent.ie〕 〔''Sunday Tribune'' profile by Kevin Dawson, (8 October 1989): ‘Andy O’Mahony, one of RTÉ’s more intellectual presenters is trying to appear streetwise'〕 From 1988 to 2000, he presented ''The Sunday Show'', a current affairs talk show for RTÉ Radio 1.〔The Sunday Show: Sunday, Bloody Sunday by Anne Harris, Sunday Independent, 14 February 1993〕〔Review of The Sunday Show by Harry Browne, Irish Times, 13 April 1993〕 He earned four Jacob's Radio awards.〔Report by Frank Khan on Jacob's Awards, Sunday Independent, 15 October 1989〕 A lifelong book collector, he donated his personal library in February 2015 to the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick. This collection of over 7000 volumes reflects the donor's various interests, ranging from philosophy, religion and literature to economics, politics and the history of ideas. 〔http://ullb.blogspot.ie/2015/03/glucksman-library-accepts-andy-omahony.html〕 == Background, education and research interests == Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1934, he was educated locally by the Christian Brothers, and in Limerick by the Redemptorists, who taught him Latin and Greek. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin he was a student of the English baritone, Dennis Noble. He graduated in Commerce from Trinity College, Dublin and in Philosophy and Logic from University College, Dublin. He has a PhD in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University〔"Hot Press" interview with Joe Jackson, (16 December 1996): ‘So, then Andy, Did you ever sleep with Gaybo? http://hotpress.com/archive/392486.html〕〔'One Voice'; interview with Paddy Kehoe in RTÉ Guide, 28 October 1995〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy O'Mahony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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