An accomplished author, journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York and Dublin, Karen has written about U.S. politics and was an embedded reporter in Iraq writeing news and indept features for two national daily newspapers. She produced a daily news and talkback segment for the Riz Kahn show at Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C..
She is currently working on a six-part docu-reality television series based on her upcoming book. Her four-part documentary series Made in America, about the new Irish - the '90s generation of 30-something Irish immigrants turned millionaires, was broadcast on Ireland's leading network RTE and was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Documentary Series. She recently finished a non-fiction book The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America (New York: Sterling, November 1, 2011), a living history about the little known but profound and often hilarious influence the people from the North of Ireland have had on the formation of America . She is currently working on her second book Brilliant! The Cosmic Adventures of the Ingenious Irish. |