Fionnbar Callanan is an Irish sports photographer and journalist.

Life and work

Fionnbar Callanan wrote on sports since 1954 for the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, Radio Éireann (as it then was) and the Irish Press. In 1960 his first sports photograph was published. Since then, his photographs have regularly been seen at home & abroad in newspapers & magazines, in sports books and even on stamps. Callanan has not just hidden behind his camera. As an athlete, he represented Ireland and has also been active in athletic and sporting bodies including BLE. He is currently Secretary of the Irish Association of Sports Journalists. His book of sporting photography, ''A Sporting Eye'', was published by

Liberties Press Liberties Press (also known as Liberties Media Ltd) is an independent book publisher based in Dublin, founded in 2003. The company's first publication was Con Houlihan's now-classic collection of sportswriting, ''More Than a Game'': the title was r ...

in 2005.

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Liberties Press
Author's page at libertiespress.com Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish sports journalists Sports photographers 20th-century Irish photographers 21st-century Irish photographers {{Europe-photographer-stub