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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Guardian | Douglas Gageby
Douglas Gageby, who has died aged 85, was editor of the Irish Times for a total of 22 years, including the worst years of the recent violence.
Gageby attracted a wide range of journalists and writers, whose disparate views reflected the enormous changes in Irish society during the past half century.
Gageby was born in Dublin, before partition, the only son of Thomas Gageby, a Belfast-born civil servant, whose own father had stood as a Labour parliamentary candidate in Belfast North in 1906.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4958888-103684,00.html   (844 words)

  
 Douglas Gageby, transformed Irish Times into paper of record; 85 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, has died.
Gageby, who edited the newspaper from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986, died Thursday after a two-year illness, his family and former co-workers announced.
Gageby avoided the cocktail-party circuit and appeared only rarely on television, insisting the editor's job was to criticize the ruling elite, not to befriend or join it.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040629/news_1m29gageby.html   (359 words)

  
 Of Note (washingtonpost.com)
Douglas Gageby, 85, who transformed the Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into one of the most respected newspapers on the island, died June 24 in Dublin.
Gageby, a Protestant from Belfast, edited the newspaper from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986.
Gageby took the reins of the Irish Times when the newspaper, like the Protestant minority, was struggling for survival.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A16219-2004Jun29.html   (457 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Douglas Gageby, was editor of Irish Times newspaper
Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, died Thursday.He was 85.
DUBLIN -- Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, died Thursday.He was 85.
Gageby, who edited the newspaper from 1963 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986, was cremated Saturday.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/06/29/douglas_gageby_was_editor_of_irish_times_newspaper   (318 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Douglas Gageby, journalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DOUGLAS Gageby was the man who transformed the Irish Times from the voice of Ireland’s dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island.
Gageby took the reins of the Irish Times at a time when the newspaper, like the country’s tiny Protestant minority, was struggling for survival.
Throughout his career, Gageby avoided the cocktail-party circuit and appeared only rarely on television, insisting that the editor’s job was to criticise the ruling elite, not to befriend it or join it.
news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=741712004   (532 words)

  
 Plain-speaking Gageby's legacy to Irish journalism: ThePost.ie
Gageby was of Northern Protestant stock, but politically he belonged to the old radical liberal tradition, like his great political hero, JB Armour of Ballymoney, the Protestant Home Ruler.
Gageby was probably the first in the Irish media to comprehend the significance of what was emerging in the North.
Gageby then added a belief in the supremacy of that state and its agents and began the process of scrupulously covering Irish political life.
archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2004/07/04/story996849458.asp   (1252 words)

  
 Irish Examiner - 2004/06/29: Tributes paid to former Irish Times editor Gageby
Seamus Dooley, Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), said Mr Gageby was committed to the creation of a tolerant and liberal society.
Conor Brady, who succeeded Mr Gageby as editor in 1986, said his predecessor prized accuracy and honesty in journalism but never thought journalism could be truly objective.
Douglas Gageby is survived by his daughters, Susan, a High court judge, and Sally; and sons John and Patrick.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2004/06/29/story284870844.asp   (385 words)

  
 Irish Times Article - Tributes paid to former editor of 'The Irish Times'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gageby, who in the mid-50s launched and edited the Evening Press and twice edited the Irish Times - from 1963 to 1974 and 1977 to 1986, died aged 85 on Thursday following two years of ill-health.
Although an Ulster Protestant, proud of his Belfast roots, Gageby served in the Irish Army during the second World War and then rose rapidly through the ranks of the de Valera-controlled Irish Press group.
"Douglas Gageby was committed to the creation of a tolerant and liberal society and his values were reflected in The Irish Times.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2004/0628/1968329401HM1GAGEBYNEWS.html   (487 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Douglas Gageby
Douglas Gageby believed that members of the media should cover the elite, not become a member of it.
A Protestant from Belfast, Gageby studied at Trinity College Dublin, and served in the Irish Army during World War II.
When Gageby first took over the reins of The Irish Times, the newspaper was struggling financially and had little clout in media circles.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001102.html   (227 words)

  
 Douglas Gageby, 85, twice editor of the Irish Times
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Douglas Gageby, who transformed the Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, has died.
Gageby, a Protestant from Belfast, rose initially through the ranks of the Irish Press Group controlled by Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, an anti-British republican who sought to make the independent Irish Republic an overtly Catholic state.
Gageby as editor in 1986, recalled in a tribute in Monday's edition how Mr.
www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xgage29.html   (371 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Obituaries in the news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, died Thursday after a two-year illness, his family said.
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, died Thursday after a two-year illness, his family said.
After his retirement, Gageby continued to write the newspaper's regular nature column anonymously for a decade.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/28/obituaries_in_the_news?mode=PF   (642 words)

  
 RTE News:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The death has occurred of Douglas Gageby, the former editor of The Irish Times.
Mr Gageby, who was 85, died last Thursday following a two-year struggle against illness.
Mr Gageby was the overall editor of the newspaper for a total period of 18 years.
www.rte.ie /news/2004/0628/print/gagebyd   (63 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Former Irish Times editor Gageby dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DUBLIN, Ireland --Douglas Gageby, who transformed The Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's dwindling Protestant minority into the most respected newspaper on the island, has died.
The current editor, Geraldine Kennedy, described Gageby as "a journalistic icon" who "molded and shaped The Irish Times and the best of Irish journalism for most of the latter half of the 20th century."
Conor Brady, who succeeded Gageby as editor in 1986, recalled in a tribute in Monday's edition how Gageby "had an extraordinary capacity for mobilizing and stimulating those around him to give of their best."
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/28/former_irish_times_editor_gageby_dies?mode=PF   (419 words)

  
 Douglas Gageby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was married to Dorothy, daughter of Sean Lester (last Secretary General of the League of Nations).
"Last Secretary General: Sean Lester and the League of Nations" by Douglas Gageby, 1999, ISBN 1860591086
This page was last modified 21:52, 20 June 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Gageby   (196 words)

  
 Irish News - Irish Independent Online - Sunday Independent , Irish newspapers, News Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ANY appreciation of Douglas Gageby runs the risk of becoming a promotional blurb for a competitor newspaper.
For Douglas Gageby was the Irish Times, and the Irish Times, particularly in the heady days of his first period as editor, was Douglas Gageby.
AGNES 'Sis' Cunningham, who has died aged 95, was instrumental in the development of American folk as a member of the Almanac Singers and later as co-founder, with her husband George Friesen, of the folk-song journal Broadside, which published, among many others, the first song by Bob Dylan to appear in print.
www.unison.ie /irish_independent/index.php3?ca=308&issue_id=11094   (156 words)

  
 "There is Difficulty Lower Down Whereby Sometimes Unauthorised Items Appear" - National Arts and Media - Indymedia ...
The then Editor of the Irish Times, Douglas Gageby, "Protestant, Belfast born", is referred to as "an excellent man but on northern questions a renegade or white nigger".
Though Gageby was brought back in 1977, after the indifferent editorship of Fergus Pyle, a ‘Kulturkampf’ had been engineered by Conor Cruise O’Brien during the 1973-1977 labour Fine Gael Coalition.
The letter that was suppressed contained racist references, attributed to Major McDowell, directed at a former editor of The Irish Times, Douglas Gageby, and contained a request from Major McDowell for guidance from 10 Downing Street on editorial control of The Irish Times.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=64231&print_page=true   (6728 words)

  
 Read Ireland Book Review - Issue 188
In this book, 'Y' reveals himself as Douglas Gageby, beloved and distinguished editor of that newspaper and naturalist extraordinaire.
Elderflower fritters, barbecued squirrels and tiger dung are some of the more recondite topics that he wrote about over the years with characteristic quirky good humour.
Douglas Gageby and the famed Irish journalist, John Healy, his friend and angling companion, started the column.
www.readireland.ie /booknews/issue188.html   (1738 words)

  
 Wayne Glenn GAGEBY/Emma Ruth DUOOS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Name: Wayne Robert GAGEBY Born: 1936 at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Virginia Ann SAMSON
Name: Gerald Ralph GAGEBY Born: 1937 at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Penny FOLTZ
Name: Steven Douglas GAGEBY Born: 1938 at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Jacquelyn Doris KNOWLEN
web.mountain.net /rhitzel/fam00780.htm   (102 words)

  
 The Washington Post: Douglas Gageby Irish Times E ...@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Washington Post: Douglas Gageby Irish Times E...@ HighBeam Research
Douglas Gageby, 85, who transformed the Irish Times from the voice of Ireland's
Gageby, a Protestant from Belfast, edited the newspaper from 1963 to
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:96007283&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (144 words)

  
 Blog of Death: July 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gordon Edwards was a mountain climber, an author, a park ranger and an educator, but he also held an unofficial title: the patron saint of climbing at Glacier National Park.
In his spare time, he participated in the American Wheelchair Bowling Association, and invented a ball holder attachment for wheelchairs.
Douglas Roger Hanson, a World War II veteran and inventor, died on July 19 in a work-related accident.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/2004_07.html   (10628 words)

  
 University of Dublin, Trinity College
Mr Michael Longley and Mr Douglas Gageby were among six Honorary Degree recipients conferred in Trinity College on 17 December 1999.
Mr Douglas Gageby LL.D (former editor of the Evening Press and Irish Times, who has contributed to the mutual understanding between North and South);
Mr Gordon Lambert LL.D. (a graduate of the University, who has combined a successful business career with public service, especially in the encouragement of the arts).
www.tcd.ie /Secretary/Communications/Press_Releases/PRArchive/PR9900/pr25.html   (146 words)

  
 The Blog Snorkeller: Comment on Douglas Gageby: bloody orange white nigger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It's a bit of a mystery why really, although he did have a temper.
Why he wasn't called Douglas to his face was a mystery, too.
I saw a different editor, maybe, while I was working alongside Maeve and Nell and the girls.
www.p45blogs.net /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1773   (275 words)

  
 Last Secretary General; Author: Gageby, Douglas; Hardback; Book
Last Secretary General; Author: Gageby, Douglas; Hardback; Book
Sean Lester was a young man when sworn into the IRB by Ernest Bythe.
Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
www.netstoreusa.com /babooks/186/1860591086.shtml   (176 words)

  
 Read Ireland - Publisher Profiles
This year alone will see a true once-off, when Town House publishes a complete history of the works of the OPW this century (Building for Government: The Works of the OPW, 1900-2000), while entomologists from the National History Museum offer a complete and comprehensive guide to Irish Indoor Insects.
Already this year Douglas Gageby's timely account of the life of Sean Lester in The Last Secretary General has gained due praise ('Required reading' THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST).
This ethic follows through in the long established (and still going) Irish Treasures series, which allows the countries top academics the chance to offer succinct and accessible treatments of their specialist areas.
www.readireland.ie /top/Townhous.html   (1786 words)

  
 drrnwbb.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When I joined the staff that year, regular foreign coverage still came from news agencies and overseas syndication arrangements.
Douglas Gageby, who edited the paper for two spells up to 1986, took foreign coverage to a new level, however, making overseas assignments almost routine; he sent me to cover stories such as the start of the Iran-Iraq war and the emergency in South Africa.
The subsequent war between American-backed rebels and the Russians was depicted in the west as a battle between good and evil.
www.drrnwbb.com /mirror?D=A   (7608 words)

  
 "There is Difficulty Lower Down Whereby Sometimes Unauthorised Items Appear" - National Arts and Media - Indymedia ...
Gageby was referred to as a "renegade or white nigger".
Nice picture of Douglas Gageby in Belfast as well, engaging in "renegade" activities by unveiling a United Irishmen memorial.
Sherry Fitzgerald, Gunnes, HOK, Lisney & Co., Ganly Waters, Jackson Stops, Daphne L. Kaye, Douglas Newman Good etc etc etc...
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=64231&search_text=apology   (6728 words)

  
 Martin Mansergh & The Irish Times - A Polemic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Gilchrist's letter was released by the British Public Record Office in January 2000, the paper was guilty of self-censorship by failing to publish its contents, especially the claim that Major McDowell referred to his editor at the time, Douglas Gageby, as a
I have no doubt it was the same in Mr Gageby's editorship.
Have the conspiracy theorists overlooked the fact that its editor during most of the Troubles, Douglas Gageby, as a former Irish intelligence officer, was surely a match for any counter-influences?
www.atholbooks.org /mansergh_polemic.html   (7168 words)

  
 Ireland.com -The Irish Times - FRONT PAGE
Leinster defeated Stade Francais 24-23 in their Heineken Cup tie at Donnybrook yesterday evening.
SportsSaturday Former editor honoured.Leading figures from the worlds of business, the media, science and literature, including the former editor of The Irish Times, [R O]Mr Douglas Gageby, received honorary degrees at Trinity College yesterday.
Cold over Ulster, north Connacht and the far north of Leinster, with frost and fog clearing slowly.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/1999/1218/index.htm   (733 words)

  
 BookkooB: Last Secretary General - Douglas Gageby
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