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. He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986. 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.