Early Career
Eoghan Harris was born in Douglas village on the outskirts of Cork city in 1943. Harris was educated at University College Cork where he studied English & History. He later worked at RTÉ, the Irish national television broadcaster, on current affairs programmes such as 7 Days and Féach. He also made a documentary on mental illness called Darkness Visible.
In the Cork Mid by-election in March 1965 he campaigned for Sylvester Cotter standing for Poblacht Chríostúil, at this time he met his future wife UCC Student, Anne O'Sullivan. The aim of the party was "to base the social and economic policies of our country on Christian social reform, as elaborated by the last six Popes."
In 1975, Harris won a Jacob's Award for his 7 Days documentary on the Dublin Bay petroleum refinery. He had refused a previous award in 1970 for his work on Féach, citing his objection to the involvement in the awards of a commercial sponsor.
As a writer, Harris is the author of Souper Sullivan which was performed at the Abbey Theatre for the Dublin Theatre Festival 1987.
Harris wrote several of the scripts for the UK television series Sharpe, starring Sean Bean as a British Army officer of the 95th (Rifles) Regiment and based on the book series by Bernard Cornwell.
He lectures on screenwriting in the National Film School. Harris is also a judge on the TG4 television series Glas Vegas. He is involved with the Centre for Film Studies in UCD, and with Moonstone Labs.
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