Professor Farrel Corcoran is an author and retired academic of Dublin City University. He has served as Head of Communication and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the university.[1] From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of RTÉ, the Republic of Ireland's public service broadcaster.[2]

Farrel Corcoran was born in Borrisokane, he went to secondary school in St Finian's College, Mullingar, before entered Maynooth College as a clerical student, following his Humanities studies he left the seminary and became a teacher, in Ireland and abroad. He also worked at RTE. Corcoran went to the US to do postgraduate studies, earning a PhD from University of Oregon.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "communications: farrel corcoran". Dublin City University. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
  2. ↑ "Switched on, turned off". Irish Independent. 27 December 2003. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  3. ↑ Survivors of the emotional deep freeze – Maynooths class of 66 looks back Kathy Sheridan, Life and Style, Irish Times

Published works

Books by Farrel Corcoran include: RTÉ and the Globalisation of Irish Television, Intellect Books, 2004.


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