Colum Kenny : REFEREED ARTICLES/ESSAYS etc.

a) Culture and communications

‘Educating journalists in Ireland’, in European Journalism Studies, ed. George Terzis, European Communication Research and Education Association (Intellect Books, Bristol and University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2009).

‘Reporting religion’, in Eamon Maher (ed.), Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland (Columba, 2008), pp.111-142.

‘No losers: talking beats television’. In Wasting time with people? Ed. Alice Leahy (Gill & Macmillan, 2008).

‘A door to lost treasure’. In Remembering to forgive: a tribute to Una O‘Higgins O‘Malley, ed. Enda McDonagh. Dublin: Veritas, 2007. pp.114-20.

‘Súil eile: another way of seeing minority language broadcasting’. In Language and Intercultural Communication, v, nos. 3 & 4 (Spring, 2006), pp.264-273.

‘“God Help Us!”: The Media and Irish Catholicism’. In Irish and Catholic? Towards an Understanding of Identity. Ed. Eamon Maher et al. Dublin: Columbia, 2006. pp.90-102.

‘Censorship not “self-censorship”’. In Political censorship and the democratic state: the Irish broadcasting ban. Ed. M. Corcoran and M. O‘Brien. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. pp.73-85.

‘Foreword’. In Simon Bourke, Taking the free-speech temperature: Irish libel law and newspaper journalism. Dublin: Dublin City University, 2004.

Irish entry co-author, The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopaedia of Radio. Ed. C. H. Sterling. Routledge, 3 vols., 2003.

‘Whistling in the dark or A job for journalists in the Tower of Babel’. In The splintered heart: conversations with a church in crisis. Ed. Eamonn Conway. Dublin: Veritas, 1998. pp.9-23.

‘Maple and Shamrock: seeking a strategy for survival in the audiovisual jungle’. In special online edition of Irish Communications Review (vol.7, 1997). Copy at http://www.icr.dit.ie/

‘TV3 and the regulation of competition in broadcasting’. In Media: the views of journalists and lawyers. Ed. Marie McGonagle. Dublin: Round Hall - Sweet & Maxwell, 1997. pp.39-53.

‘Section 31 and the censorship of programmes’. In Irish Law Times & Solicitor's Journal, n.s., xii, no.3 (March, 1994), pp.50-2.

‘A decade of broadcasting research’, and, ‘Commerce and culture: Irish broadcasting at the cross-roads should take the middle path’. In Teaglaim, i (1993), pp.44-8.

b) Social, professional and historical

Entries. Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. James Maguire for Royal Irish Academy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

‘New Leighlin: a forgotten Anglo-Norman setllement’. In Carlow: inter-disciplinary essays on the history of and Irish county, ed. T. McGrath and W. Nolan, Irish county history and society series (Geography Publications, 2008).

‘“By no means relished by the gentlemen of the bar”: King's Inns moves to Constitution Hill’. In Bare bones of a fanlight: Georgian Dublin, ed. Gillian O‘Brien and Finola O‘Kane (Four Courts Press, 2008), pp.78-96.

Forword, The forgotten heritage of Kildare, by Ger McCarthy (Nonsuch Publishing, Dublin, 2006).

Nolumus mutari: time for change at King's Inns?’. In 40 Irish Jurist (new series) 321-346 (2005). Published December 2006.

‘Adventures in legal training: the Irish genesis of the United Kingdom select committee on legal education, 1846’. In Adventures of the law, ed. P. Brand, W.N. Osborough and K. Costello (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp.289-300.

‘A challenge for researchers’. In Doctrine & life, lv, no. 4 (April 2005), pp.38-49.

Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). Entries.

“Introduction”. A place for peace: Glencree Centre of Reconciliation 1974-2004. Ed. Colin Murphy & Lunne Adair. (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2004). pp.1-8.

‘On holy ground: the benchers and the site of the present Four Courts before 1796’. In The Four Courts: two hundred years. Ed. C. Costello. Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland, 1996. pp.1-22.

‘The Four Courts at Christ Church, 1608-1796’. In W.N. Osborough (ed.). Explorations in law and history (Irish Academic Press, 1995), pp.107-32.

‘Irish ambition and English preference in chancery appointments, 1827-1841: the case of William Conyngham Plunket’. In W.N. Osborough (ed.). Explorations in law and history (Irish Academic Press, 1995), pp.133-76.

‘King's Inns and Henrietta Street chambers’. In Dublin Historical Record, xlvii, no. 2 (Autumn 1994), pp.155-168.

‘Paradox or Pragmatist? “Honest Tristram Kennedy” (1805-85): lawyer, educationalist, land-agent and member of parliament’. In Proc. of the Royal Irish Academy. xcii, C, no.1 (1992), pp.1-35.

‘The records of Kings Inns, Dublin’. In Hogan, D. & Osborough, W.N. (eds). Brehons, Serjeants and Attorneys (Irish Academic Press. 1990), pp.231-48.

‘The exclusion of Catholics from the legal profession in Ireland, 1537-1829’. In Irish Historical Studies. xxv (1987), pp.337-57.

‘The Four Courts in Dublin before 1796’. In Irish Jurist. xxi (1986), pp.107-24.

‘Counsellor Duhigg - antiquarian and activist’. In Irish Jurist. xxi (1986), pp.300-25.

c) e-publications

Personal webpage, DCU.

Personal research database (RSS).

Moodle pages (various modules).

Professional discussion forum (Religion and the media). DCU Moodle site.

Columnist database (independent.ie)

Econsultations (including Oireachtas Committee on Broadcasting Bill, and Broadcasting Commission of Ireland on policy changes).

‘Analysis of Broadcasting Bill’. The Radharc Trust. Sept. 2006. www.mediaforum.ie

‘What is local history anyway?’ Fed. of Local History Groups: Kildare.
http://kildare.ie/local-history/News/view-details.asp?NewsID=139 (posted 8 May 2006).

Journal articles listed above that are now also available on-line are not repeated here.


Prof. Colum Kenny, School of Communications, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
email: colum.kenny@dcu.ie.      Phone/Voicemail: +353.1.7005235.
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