Life and work

Fionnbar Callanan wrote on sports since 1954 for the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, Radio Éireann (as it then was) and the Irish Press. In 1960 his first sports photograph was published. Since then, his photographs have regularly been seen at home & abroad in newspapers & magazines, in sports books and even on stamps. Callanan has not just hidden behind his camera. As an athlete, he represented Ireland and has also been active in athletic and sporting bodies including BLE. He is currently Secretary of the Irish Association of Sports Journalists.

His book of sporting photography, A Sporting Eye, was published by Liberties Press

Liberties Press

Liberties Press is one of Ireland's leading publishers of non-fiction titles of Irish and international interest. Since its inception in 2003 it has published on a wide range of subjects; from titles of literary interest such as John Montague's A Ball of Fire to Con Houlihan's collection of...

 in 2005.

External links

• Liberties Press Author's page at libertiespress.com