Dr. Finola Doyle-O’Neill

Dr Finola Doyle O’Neill is a Broadcast Historian at the School of History, University College Cork. She lectures in the field of Ireland's broadcast and film history- as well as in the area of Crime and the Media- as part of the BA in Criminology. She is author of The Gaybo Revolution: How Gay Byrne Challenged Irish Society, which is currently a recommended text for the Leaving Certificate History curriculum and its coverage of the Impact of RTÉ 1962-1972.

She is a regular commentator on radio and on television, on issues relating to Ireland's broadcasting history. Dr Doyle O'Neill has been a Board member of the Cork Film Festival, as well as being an active committee member of IFUT. She is also a member of The Women's History Association, the National Union of Journalists, and patron of the UCC Journalism Society. She has written an award -winning historical play on the women of 1916, Walking with Ireland into the Sun, and a radio series, The Road to the Vote: The fight for female suffrage in Ireland, which is currently available on the Oireachtas website.