The Irish in Britain: A Conversation with the Diaspora - Robert Schmuhl

Robert Schmuhl is inaugural occupant of the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also Director of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy. During the second semester of 2008/9 he served as the first UCD John Hume Institute Visiting Research Fellow.

Schmuhl is author or editor of ten books, including Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality (1990 and 1992), Demanding Democracy (1994), Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher-King (1996) and Wounded Titans: American Presidents and the Perils of Power (1996). His edited volume, The Responsibilities of Journalism, has been published in four foreign editions since appearing in 1984. Indecent Liberties came out in 2000 and was selected by the Chicago Tribune Books section as one of 40 noteworthy nonfiction titles for 2000. His collection of essays, In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures, will appear in a new, expanded edition in 2010.

His academic articles have been published in several books and in such journals as Society , Critical Studies in Mass Communication, The Review of Politics, Issues of Democracy, and Style. A frequent contributor to popular publications, Schmuhl's columns, features, and reviews have appeared in the The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Commonweal, American Journalism Review, The Quill , and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a frequent guest commentator on radio and Television programmes in the U.S. and in Ireland.