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  • Comment: Per previous reviews. S0091 (talk) 19:12, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Much of what we have here are press releases (of book launches), interviews with the subject (which are mostly vague and unverifiable), writings by the subject (including news articles by the subject about his own works) and other non-independent sources. Where is the independent coverage of the subject (biographical or otherwise, significant or otherwise) in their own right? Do we have any biographical coverage of the subject's life? (Covering basic facts like DOB, POB, education, etc?) If there is no such coverage, and we are reliant on passing mentions and primary sources to establish the text that we do have, how is SIGCOV/NBIO established? Guliolopez (talk) 14:48, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: press releases and interviews are not reliable independent sources. Theroadislong (talk) 15:46, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: To establish notability, sources more sources that meet wikipedia's WP:GNG policy are required. Sources need to be independent of the subject and contain significant coverage rather than a trivial mention. ––– GMH MELBOURNE 23:40, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
  • Comment: Some promotional fluff/peacock wording that has to be fixed, and the text needs to be structured in paragraphs.
    The references also need work. See WP:CITEREF. In addition please remove all refs that don't serve to verify the information or are not reliable and independent, such as "IMDB". bonadea contributions talk 07:35, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Damian Corless
BornDamian Corless
NationalityIrish
Subject
  • Irish history
  • culture

Damian Corless is an Irish author, playwright and scriptwriter. He has written several works covering Irish history and culture.[1]

Corless was MTV's first Irish correspondent.[2] He was editor of the culture guide In Dublin before becoming managing editor of the monthly current affairs magazine Magill.[3] He wrote TV comedy sketches for the BBC series Big Train and RTÉ series Stew.[4]

From 2001 to 2019, he was a columnist and feature writer with Independent News & Media, initially with the Herald before moving to the Irish Independent.[citation needed] A 2003 article by Corless, published in the Irish Independent, was mentioned in a Seanad discussion in May 2003.[5] The author of a study of Ireland's climate since the first settlers arrived,[citation needed] he has delivered guest talks on the weather including to Roscommon's annual Percy French Festival,[6] Irish Meteorological Society,[citation needed] and the annual Bloom Horticultural Festival.[7]

His book on the history of Ireland's "love affair with confectionary", You'll Ruin Your Dinner, provided source material for a collaboration between the National College Of Art & Design's MA course in Design History and Material Culture and The Little Museum of Dublin, which yielded an exhibition and accompanying publication entitled The Secret Lives Of Objects - Hidden Histories Of Dublin Design.[8][failed verification] Corless appeared as a commentator in each instalment of RTE1's 2022 history TV series "The Way We Were".[9] Corless has contributed to a number of radio programs on RTÉ and Newstalk.[10][11]

His stage comedy 'Death Wish '16 - The GPO' debuted at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival in 2015 with Ardal O'Hanlon as Padraig Pearse and Fred MacAuley as James Connolly.[12][13] In 2019, Corless was shortlisted for an An Post Book Of The Year Award, alongside singer Christy Dignam, for his work on Dignam's memoir My Crazy World published by Simon & Schuster.[14] In May 2024 Mirror Books UK published Corless'es social history of Ireland as a tax haven for British pop stars, 'Tax, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll'[15][16]

Selected works

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  • Corless, Damian (1995). Loose Talk: The GUBU File. Wolfhound Press. ISBN 0863275184.
  • Nugent, Michael; Corless, Damian (2003). That's Ireland: An Irish Miscellany. Blackwater Press. ISBN 978-1-84131-633-8.[17]
  • Corless, Damian (2004). Gubu Nation: Grotesque Unbelievable Bizarre Unprecedented Happenings in Ireland. Merlin Press. ISBN 978-1-903582-57-2.
  • Corless, Damian (2007). Party Nation: Ireland's General Elections : The Strokes, Jokes, Spinners and Winners. Merlin Press. ISBN 978-1-903582-71-8.[18][19]
  • Corless, Damian (2010). The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World: Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7171-4669-7.[20][21][22][23]
  • Corless, Damian (2011). You'll Ruin Your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish Childhood. Hachette. ISBN 978-1-4447-2602-2.[24]
  • Corless, Damian (2013). Looks Like Rain: 9,000 Years of Irish Weather. Collins Press. ISBN 978-1-84889-181-4.[25]
  • Corless, Damian (2014). From Clery's Clock to Wanderly Wagon: Irish History You Weren't Taught at School. Collins Press. ISBN 978-1-84889-227-9.[26]
  • Corless, Damian (2016-03-26). Death Wish '16 - the GPO. Kaysons Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5306-9099-2.[27]
  • Corless, Damian (2016-10-01). Hopscotch and Queenie-i-o. Collins Press. ISBN 978-1-84889-597-3.[28][29]
  • Dignam, Christy; Corless, Damian (2019). My Crazy World. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4711-8431-4.
  • Corless, Damian (2024). Tax, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll. Mirror Books UK. ISBN 978-1-915-306-593.[30]

References

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  1. ^ Interview. 'Damian Corless Vs The Irish Establishment.' Sunday Business Post 24/10/2004
  2. ^ Corless, Damian (6 August 2017). "MTV Europe: We Tuned In, Turned On, Then Switched Off". Irish Independent.
  3. ^ "Damian Corless Books". hachette.com.au.[better source needed]
  4. ^ Corless, Damian (12 December 2011). "The Etiquette of Interviewing". writing.ie.[better source needed]
  5. ^ "Seanad Debate 13/05/2003. Questions to Michael Martin, Minister for Health & Children". 13 May 2003. In the Irish Independent last week, Damien Corless gave the historical background to the achievement by consultants of their powerful position in the health service
  6. ^ Weather Events In Percy French's Time 8/7/2014 percyfrench.ie [failed verification]
  7. ^ The Weather Forecast, Banter At Bloom 2015 http://thisisbanter.com/author/jimcarrollbanter/page/6/
  8. ^ "The Secret Lives Of Objects - Hidden Histories Of Dublin Design - NCAD MA In Design History And Material Culture - Edited By Lisa Godson" (PDF). ncad.ie.
  9. ^ "THE WAY WE WERE ***Final*** | RTÉ Press Centre".
  10. ^ "Hidden Histories: Summer of '32 Sweet Wars".
  11. ^ "RTE Radio 1, Of Weather, Waves & Wireless". podpage.com.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Padraig Pearse As Cross-dresser In Controversial Easter Rising comedy. Deathwish '16: The GPO to premiere with Father Ted star Ardal O'Hanlon". Irish Central. 26 May 2015.
  13. ^ Corless, Damian (16 April 2015). "My 1916: History repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce, in Death Wish 16". Irish Independent.
  14. ^ "An Post Book Awards Celebrate Best Irish Writing". Irish Examiner. 24 October 2019.
  15. ^ Corless, Damian (30 April 2024). "How Ireland went from a land of 'police and priests' to a tax haven to Cool Hibernia". Irish Independent.
  16. ^ Corless, Damian (24 May 2024). "'A tour through Ireland's complex pop culture history'". Irish Examiner.
  17. ^ "You couldn't make it up ; From hilarious gaffes and the busiest priests to planet Enya and the best place to meet a man, a new book of Irish trivia is hard to put down. Brian Boyd reports". The Irish Times. Nov 14, 2003. p. 19. ProQuest 309696664.
  18. ^ The Panel: General Election Special. RTE1 TV 9/5/2007 [failed verification]
  19. ^ The Bizarre Incidents That Make Elections Fun. Review Sunday Business Post 26/5/2007 https://www.businesspost.ie/legacy/the-bizarre-incidents-that-make-elections-fun/
  20. ^ Take The Money And Run. Sunday Times 10/10/2010
  21. ^ An Excellent Account Of A National Embarrassment. Sunday Business Post 21/11/2010
  22. ^ Grubby, Corrupt, Illegal And Irish. Sunday Independent 21/11/2010
  23. ^ Interview. Scannal: Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. RTE1 TV 20/4/2017
  24. ^ Bielenberg, Kim (2011-12-25). "Review: Food: You'll Ruin Your Dinner by Damian Corless". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  25. ^ "Make a date with these top-class page-turnersgive your loved ones something to cuddle up with in front of the fire". Irish Independent. 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  26. ^ Interview. Mornings With Dave Fanning. RTE Radio 2 7/10/2017
  27. ^ "Interview. Ardal O'Hanlon To Star In New 1916 Farce". RTE.ie Entertainment. 30 May 2015. Corless, whose books include From Clery's Clock to Wanderly Wagon: Irish History You Weren't Taught at School, says he wrote Deathwish 16: The GPO to "raise awareness of the 1916 Rising."[failed verification]
  28. ^ Breen, Des (2017-03-04). "Book review: Hopscotch and Queenie-I-O: A 1960s Irish Childhood". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  29. ^ The Way We Were: 1960s Ireland In A Moral Vice. Irish Times 10/12/2016
  30. ^ O'Callaghan, Colm (2024-05-24). "Book review: A tour through Ireland's complex pop culture history". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2024-09-10.


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