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About David Rice |
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| A native of Northern Ireland, DAVID RICE has worked as a journalist on three continents. He has also been a Dominican friar. In the 1970s he was an editor and Sigma-Delta-Chi award-winning syndicated columnist in the United States, and returned to Ireland in 1980 to head the prestigious Rathmines School of Journalism. In 1989 he was invited to Beijing to train journalists on behalf of Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, and to work as an editor with China Features. He was in Beijing during the massacre of Tiananmen Square, and later returned to interview secretly 400 of the young people who had survived the massacre. This led to two books, Dragon’s Brood and the novel Song of Tiananmen Square, which was read for a full week on RTE, Ireland’s national radio. His books have been published in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Italy and the United States. Rice’s No.1 best-selling Shattered Vows led to the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary, Priests of Passion, which he presented. He now lives in Co Tipperary, has taught Writing Skills at the University of Limerick, and directs the now world-famous Killaloe Hedge-School of Writing, to which beginning writers have come from 19 countries so far. DAVID RICE has taught writing and editing skills for more than 20 years, and has pioneered his own training techniques. His clients include Trinity College, the University of Limerick, The Irish Times, the Thomson Foundation (London), Xin Hua, the New China News Agency (Beijing), the ESB, Bord Failte, the Mid-Western Health Board, the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Church of Ireland, the City of Dublin VEC, Edelman Public Relations, Drury PR, the Irish Academy of Public Relations, the Dromineer Literary Festival, the Ennis Book-Club Festival, Essilor Ireland, and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. |
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