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Rafter, Kevin
Department:
School of Creative Arts Department of Film and Media
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
Head of Department
Contact Telephone Number:
+353 1 2394719
Email Address:
kevin (dot) rafter (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
PhD (Dublin Institute of Technology, 2009)
MA (University College Dublin 1997)
MLitt (Trinity College, Dublin 1994)
BA (Mod) (Trinity College, Dublin 1992)
Area of Expertise:
Kevin Rafter is a writer, broadcaster and lecturer. He has held several senior editorial positions in Irish media organisations including at RTE, the Irish Times, the Sunday Times and the Sunday Tribune. He joined IADT in June 2008. His professional background and academic interest focus on Irish politics; small political parties; peace process in Northern Ireland; media and journalism history; broadcasting policy and media market trends. For further information please see www.kevinrafter.com.
Currently Teaching:
MA in Broadcast Production: Irish media history & media regulation policy.
Research Interests/Activities:
• Research project on political advertising funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
• Contract from Manchester University Press for an edited collection entitled, Irish Journalism History, to be published in 2010.
Professional Practice Interests:
Member of Political Studies Association of Ireland; Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland; Association of Independent Radio Producers.
Publications:
• Fine Gael: Party at a crossroads, New Island, 2009 • This is Charlie Bird, co-author, Gill & Macmillan, 2006 • Sinn Fein 1905-2005: In the shadow of gunmen, Gill & Macmillan, 2005. • Martin Mansergh: A Biography, New Island, 2002 • The Clann: A History of Clann na Poblachta, 1945-65, Mercier, 1996 • Neil Blaney:A Biography, Blackwater, 1993 • Malin Head to Mizen Head, local election guidebook, co-editor, Blackwater, 1992 • ‘Run out of the Gallery: The changing nature of Irish political journalism’ in Irish Communications Review, 2009 • George Mitchell and the role of the peace talks chairman, The Irish Review, Spring 2008. (Guest Editor. Commissioned articles for special issue of The Irish Review entitled: ‘Ten Years On – Post Belfast Agreement Northern Ireland’.) • Priests and Peace: The role of Redemptorist Order in the Northern Ireland Peace Process, Etudes Irlandaises, Spring/Autumn, no. 28-1, 2003 • Leadership Changes in Fine Gael & the Labour Party, Irish Political Studies, 18, 2003 • Making it up as they went along - residential property tax and policy change, Irish Political Studies, 15, 2000 • Allocating the Structural Funds, Administration, 45 (3), 1997 • This Morning Refused Breakfast in Hunger Strike, Brandon Books, 2006. • Outside is America in The Oglam Stone - An Anthology of Contemporary Ireland, Institute of Public Administration, 2001 • Allocating the Structural Funds, Administration, vol. 45 no. 3 (Autumn, 1997) • Charities and EU Tax Harmonisation, Irish Charities Tax Reform Group, 1993 ‘Bomber and Mavericks: Magill magazine’s coverage of Northern Ireland, 1977-90’ paper delivered at 2nd annual conference of the Newspaper and periodical History Forum, Dublin Institue of Technology, 20-21 November 2009. ‘Hear no evil. See no evil. Political Advertising in Ireland’ paper delivered at the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Liverpool Hope University, October 2009. ‘Foreign News: The case of Ireland’ paper delivered at News in Europe News on Europe conference at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan,Poland, August 2009 ‘Beyond the Lobby: How political journalism has been redefined in Ireland’ paper delivered at Journalism in Crisis conference organised by the University of Westminster/British Journalism Review, May 2009. ‘A history of the Irish parliamentary reporting’ in Parliament, IPA, (forthcoming, 2010). I continue to work as a journalist contributing columns and book reviews for the Sunday Times and a monthly media column for Marketing magazine as well as being a media and political commentator for a variety of broadcast stations including RTE and Newstalk. I have also received funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland’s Sound & Vision scheme for a number of radio documentaries including Painter Man (Newstalk, November 2007) and Markey (RTE, March 2007).Books:
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