“No faith owns the truth: that’s dangerous. I’m open to all who are tolerant to others.” Fergal Keane
Today I visited the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin; it’s a very large museum, and I will need to go back several times over the next few days. In the “National Portrait Collection” rooms, I saw a very intimate photo of the famous journalist Keane taken by Enda Bowe.
Fergal Keane worked for the Linerick Leader, the Irish Press and RTÈ before moving in 1989 to the BBC, for whom he has served as Special Correspondent all over the world, including South Africa, Irag, Hong Kong and Ukraine. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including overall winner of the
Amnesty International Press Awards (1993), the Voice of the Viewer and a Listener award (1996), and a Peabody Award and an Emmy for his role in reporting the refugee crisis in 2015. He has published several books, including The Bondage of Fear: A Journey through the Last White Empire (1995): Wounds. A Memoir of Love and War (2017); and Season of Blood (1996), an account of the Rwandan genocide, for which he won the Orwell Prize. He published his first historical volume, Road of Bones: the Siege of Kohima 1944, in 2012 and collaborated with BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ on a five-part documentary The Story of Ireland (2011) Commissioned,
National Gallery of Ireland as part of the Zurich Portrait Prize 2019. NGI.2022.37
