Lecturer

Email: ian.kilroy@tudublin.ie

 

Profile

Ian Kilroy is a member of the academic staff in the Department of Journalism and Communications within the School of Media.

Ian was the Arts Editor of the Irish Examiner, feature writer, sub-editor and contributor from Boston, Massachusetts, for the Irish Times, and a former Arts Correspondent at current affairs magazine Magill. He was also a reporter at the Sunday Tribune.

Ian continues to contribute to national publications, including the Irish Times, Irish Independent and Sunday Times, as well as national radio and television broadcasts.

He was the first recipient of the Veronica Guerin Scholarship for investigative journalism, and he maintains an ongoing interest in this specialised area of reportage.  His other journalistic interests include arts and cultural journalism, narrative journalism, and the reporting of religious affairs. Ian’s engagements with journalism practice continue, especially through his Op-Ed pieces for the Irish Times, discussing matters like representation of minorities in national media, exclusion in religious reporting, and use of new media in the maintenance of identity among migrant populations.

As founding president of the Irish Buddhist Union and member of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF), Ian is also active in wider societal engagements: as a member of the Taoiseach’s ‘faith communities’ consultative body, as Buddhist representative at the National Day of Commemoration, as well as many other engagements, advising the HSE, Irish Hospice Foundation, and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment in relation to religious affairs. Through the DCIF, Ian also supports the TU Dublin chaplaincy service, in an associate capacity. He has participated in the President’s ‘Ethics Initiative’ at Áras an Uachtaráin and published papers on issues concerned with religion and the media.  
 
His scholarly publications focus on narrative journalism and the intersection of creative and journalistic writing. In addition, Ian has also published as a creative writer, for the theatre and as a poet: his play ‘The Carnival King’ toured Ireland and was subsequently published by New Island Books, and his long poem ‘Brood’ was published in sections by Poetry Ireland and the Cúirt journal, before being made into a film and broadcast on RTÉ television, with funding from the Irish Film Board, the Arts Council and RTÉ.

 

Teaching Profile

Ian Kilroy teaches mainly on the BA and MA in Journalism programmes. His undergraduate modules include

• News Reporting
• Local News Reporting
• Investigative Reporting
• Explorations in Journalism

He also curates the ‘Specialisms in Journalism’ series of lecturers from industry leaders, which leads to a completed, professional standard project from the undergraduate journalists, whom he also oversees in a pastoral role as first year Year Tutor.  With the fourth-year graduate class, Ian mentors them through the annual magazine Major Project that contributes to their overall degree. This magazine is a frequent winner at the National Student Media Awards in various categories from year to year.  

For the MA in Journalism, Ian coordinates the ‘Landmark Media Project’, where students produce a professional standard piece of work ready for dissemination, and the ‘Journalism Masterclass’ with industry leaders, where the MA class get privileged access in a tutorial setting to prominent journalists working in the national media.  

Ian also teaches ‘Writing Non-Fiction’ to on the BA in Film and Broadcasting. Other teaching engagements involve supervising student dissertations and research at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.