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Fergal Keane
Author/Reporter
Journey into Darkness (1994)
As a young reporter Fergal Keane witnessed the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He later appeared as a witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
His films ‘Journey into Darkness’ and ‘The Killers’ are regarded as foundational visual accounts of the killing.
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‘Season of Blood’ a Rwandan Journey won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and was a ‘New York Times Notable Book.’
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Reporting History – Nelson Mandela (2022)
The film includes Fergal's interview with Nelson Mandela just as he became President in 1994.
This film looks back at Fergal Keane’s reporting, as BBC correspondent in South Africa at the end of apartheid and analyses the gap between high hopes and current realities.
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‘The Age of Revolutions’ - Story of Ireland (2010)
Fergal Keane’s initial experience of conflict as a journalist in Ireland led him to devote much of his career to try and understand what drives conflict, and how it might be resolved.
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‘The Age of Revolutions’ is a history film examining the impact of the French and American Revolutions on Ireland.
Historian
Fergal Keane has written several award-winning books, among them ‘The Road of Bones’ – an account of World War Two in the Far East, and ‘Wounds’ which describes his own family’s role in the Irish Revolution of 1919-1923.
Fergal was a Professorial Fellow in the History Department of Liverpool University and lectures and writes on international affairs.
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Here an analytical written work for the BBC on Ukraine and the challenge to the international order.​
​Fergal has interviewed many prominent figures on these issues. Here with UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, in “Never again’ (2005), a film about Darfur.