{"id":2849,"date":"2011-11-17T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2011-11-17T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:00:30","slug":"un-adios-a-cathal-oshannon-a-farewell-to-cathal-oshannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/un-adios-a-cathal-oshannon-a-farewell-to-cathal-oshannon\/","title":{"rendered":"Un adi\u00f3s a Cathal O&#8217;Shannon \/ A farewell to Cathal O&#8217;Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El 22 de octubre de 2011, a los 83 a\u00f1os, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/ten\/2011\/1022\/oshannonc.html\">falleci\u00f3 Cathal O&#8217;Shannon<\/a>, uno de los iconos m\u00e1s importantes del periodismo irland\u00e9s del \u00faltimo siglo. En septiembre del a\u00f1o pasado, la Academia Irlandesa de Cine y Televis\u00f3n (IFTA) le dedicaba un programa especial como homenaje a su trayectoria:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-FcwXncMCB4?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>El dublin\u00e9s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/tv\/christmas\/cathaloshannon.html\">Cathal O&#8217;Shannon<\/a> fue periodista y presentador la mayor parte de su vida, pero tambi\u00e9n fue sin duda un aventurero, un hombre entregado a sus ideales. Con solo 16 a\u00f1os se enrol\u00f3 con un amigo en las Fuerzas Armadas Brit\u00e1nicas (RAF) para luchar en al Segunda Guerra Mundial, aunque ambos tuvieron que falsificar la edad para hacerlo, una an\u00e9cdota que \u00e9l recordaba con cari\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Su carrera period\u00edstica comenz\u00f3 al servicio de <em>The Irish Times<\/em>, en cuya oficina londinense conoci\u00f3 a Patsy, que ser\u00eda su mujer por m\u00e1s de 50 a\u00f1os hasta su muerte, en 2006. Despu\u00e9s de trabajar como corresponsal extranjero para este peri\u00f3dico y un breve tiempo en la BBC, O&#8217;Shannon regres\u00f3 a Irlanda para trabajar en la RT\u00c9, donde entrevistas m\u00edticas como su<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/laweb\/images\/oc\/oc_mali425x275.jpg\"> cara a cara con Muhammed Al\u00ed<\/a> en 1972 lo consagraron definitivamente como uno de los grandes.<\/p>\n<p>No podemos dejar de recordar su faceta de realizador documental, que es la que une a Cathal O&#8217;Shannon con Espa\u00f1a: el premiado documental <em><a title=\"Abre nueva ventana \/ Open new window\" href=\"http:\/\/dublin.cervantes.es\/FichasCultura\/Ficha59932_16_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Even the olives are bleeding<\/a><\/em> retrata la realidad de los soldados irlandeses que participaron en la Guerra Civil Espa\u00f1ola, apoyando a uno u otro bando.<\/p>\n<p>El documental, que pod\u00e9is encontrar en la biblioteca, responde a un inter\u00e9s personal de O&#8217;Shannon en el cruento conflicto espa\u00f1ol: &#8220;<em>He estado fascinado por la Guerra Civil espa\u00f1ola desde que ten\u00eda 10 a\u00f1os&#8230; Hubo hombres irlandeses que lucharon en ambos bandos. Todos hombres de profundas convicciones, estuvieran del lado que estuvieran, hombres que marcharon a sacrificar sus vidas por sus creencias<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Por todo \u00e9sto y mucho m\u00e1s, desde el Instituto Cervantes nos sumamos a las voces que se alzan en un p\u00f3stumo homenaje a Cathal O&#8217;Shannon. Even the olives are crying.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In October 22nd 2011, at age 83, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/ten\/2011\/1022\/oshannonc.html\">Cathal O&#8217;Shannon passed away<\/a>. He was one of the main icons of the Irish journalism of the last century. In September last year, the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) broadcast a special programme to pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-FcwXncMCB4\">tribute to his career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/tv\/christmas\/cathaloshannon.html\">Cathal O&#8217;Shannon<\/a> was a journalist and TV host most of his life, but he always was an adventurer too, a man devoted to his ideals. At age 16, he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) with a friend in order to fight in World War II, although they both had to falsify their ages, something he remembered as an endearing anecdote.<\/p>\n<p>He career as a journalist started at the Londonoffices of The Irish Times. That\u2019s where he met Patsy, who became his wife for more than 50 years, until she died in 2006. After working as a foreign correspondent for the same newspaper, and a short stay at the BBC, O&#8217;Shannon came back to Irelandto work for RT\u00c9, where some mythical interviews like his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/laweb\/images\/oc\/oc_mali425x275.jpg\"> face to face with Muhammed Ali<\/a> in 1972 established him as one of the greatest.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t omit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/tv\/christmas\/cathaloshannon.html\">Cathal O&#8217;Shannon<\/a>\u2019s career as a documentary maker, which constitutes his link with Spain: the award-winning documentary <em><a title=\"Abre una nueva ventana \/ Open new window\" href=\"http:\/\/dublin.cervantes.es\/FichasCultura\/Ficha59932_16_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Even the olives are bleeding<\/a><\/em> describes the reality of the Irish soldiers who fought in the Spanish Civil War, on one side or the other.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, available in our library, responds to the personal interest of O&#8217;Shannon in the bloody Spanish conflict: \u00a0&#8220;<em>I was fascinated by the Spanish Civil War ever since I was l0 years of age&#8230; Irish men fought on both sides. All men of great conviction on whichever side they were, men who went to sacrifice their lives for their beliefs<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons &#8230;, from Instituto Cervantes, we want to join the voices raised to pay tribute to O&#8217;Shannon. Even the olives are crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El 22 de octubre de 2011, a los 83 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 Cathal O&#8217;Shannon, uno de los iconos m\u00e1s importantes del periodismo irland\u00e9s del \u00faltimo siglo. En septiembre del a\u00f1o pasado, la Academia Irlandesa de Cine y Televis\u00f3n (IFTA) le dedicaba un programa especial como homenaje a su trayectoria: El dublin\u00e9s Cathal O&#8217;Shannon fue periodista y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,37],"tags":[122,177,200,390,391],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}