Steve Conway
Encyclopedia
Steve Conway is an Irish
broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline
and most recently a presenter on the Dublin indie rock station Phantom 105.2.
Conway started his radio career on a small London rock-music pirate, South East Sound in 1985, before moving to Radio Caroline, where he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller (3). In 1991 he was one of the final crew on board the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the Goodwin Sands
(2). In 1999, he returned to help help relaunch Radio Caroline on satellite, moving home to Dublin and taking up a position on Phantom the following year.
In 2009 Liberties Press published Conway's memoir, Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline. ISBN 978-1-905483-62-4 which details his involvement with Radio Caroline in its final years at sea (1987–91) and briefly covers the relaunch of the station on satellite in 1998/9.
Steve has also had a short story "Old Haunts" published in a 2008 anthology of Irish writing, Census. ISBN 978-0955534676
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...
and most recently a presenter on the Dublin indie rock station Phantom 105.2.
Conway started his radio career on a small London rock-music pirate, South East Sound in 1985, before moving to Radio Caroline, where he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller (3). In 1991 he was one of the final crew on board the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the Goodwin Sands
Goodwin Sands
The Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile-long sand bank in the English Channel, lying six miles east off Deal in Kent, England. The Brake Bank lying shorewards is part of the same geological unit. As the shoals lie close to major shipping channels, more than 2,000 ships are believed to have been wrecked...
(2). In 1999, he returned to help help relaunch Radio Caroline on satellite, moving home to Dublin and taking up a position on Phantom the following year.
In 2009 Liberties Press published Conway's memoir, Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline. ISBN 978-1-905483-62-4 which details his involvement with Radio Caroline in its final years at sea (1987–91) and briefly covers the relaunch of the station on satellite in 1998/9.
Steve has also had a short story "Old Haunts" published in a 2008 anthology of Irish writing, Census. ISBN 978-0955534676
External links
- Author's page at libertiespress.com