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Irish journalist (born )

Fergal Patrick KeaneOBE (born 6 January ) is an Irish foreign correspondent with BBC News, and an author.^[1] For some time, Keane was the BBC's correspondent in South Africa.

He is a nephew of the Irish playwright, novelist and essayist John B. Keane.

Early life

Born in London, England, Keane grew up in Dublin and later in Cork.

Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the Rising, and in the pitiless violence of.

Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the Rising, and in the pitiless violence of.

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In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and.

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Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland.

His father was the Listowel-born actor, Éamonn Keane.^[2] His mother is Maura Hassett, a teacher and actress. He attended three primary schools in Dublin: Scoil Bhride, a gaelscoil (Irish-language school), St.

Mary's College and Terenure College, and, later, one primary school in Cork, St. Joseph's.^[3]

In a interview with The Independent, Keane said that his Gaelscoil education proved useful in later life: "The grounding in the Irish language I had at Scoil Bhride has never left me.

In a foreign country when I'm on the phone and don't wish people to understand what I'm saying, I