Eamon Delaney

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Eamon Delaney (born 14 July 1962) is an Irish author and journalist.

Delaney was a student in University College Dublin. On leaving college he became an Irish diplomat. Having left the Irish diplomatic corp, he became a fulltime author. His first novel was The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy. He later published an acclaimed account of his years as a diplomat, called An Accidential Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987-1995 (ISBN 1-902602-39-0).

He has also worked as a freelance author for a number of publications, as a writer on television and on foreign affairs. He has been editor of the latest incarnation of Dublin news and opinion magazine Magill Magazine since its relaunch in late 2004.