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Karen Frances McCarthy MA CSNU is a published author and public speaker. Formerly a political journalist, she now focuses on spirituality, existential beliefs and the philosophy of religion, including belief systems surrounding death, dying and the afterlife.

She contributes to a variety of media outlets on spirituality, existentialism, healing and bereavement, including Salon, Huffington Post, Beliefnet, and Irish Central. She is an exponent of writing for mindfulness and spiritual transformation, is an advocate for palliative and afterlife education and has a keen interest in metaphysics, physics and consciousness theory.

Formerly, she was an embedded Iraq war correspondent contributing to The Irish Times, Times Union, and The News Tribune. Karen Frances McCarthy MA CSNU is a published author and public speaker. Formerly a political journalist, she now focuses on spirituality, existential beliefs and the philosophy of religion, including belief systems surrounding death, dying and the afterlife.

She contributes to a variety of media outlets on spirituality, existentialism, healing and bereavement, including Salon, Huffington Post, Beliefnet, and Irish Central. She is an exponent of writing for mindfulness and spiritual transformation, is an advocate for palliative and afterlife education and has a keen interest in metaphysics, physics and consciousness theory.

Formerly, she was an embedded Iraq war correspondent contributing to The Irish Times, Times Union, and The News Tribune. She covered U.S. politics for The Irish Examiner, wrote a daily news report for Al Jazeera. As an author, her book The Other Irish was supported by Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs as a cultural outreach effort in Ireland's cross-border peace process. It received considerable attention from NPR, BBC, the McClatchy newswire, The Huffington Post and many other TV, radio, and print media outlets. For this work, she was named one of the the top Irish female broadcasters who have made an international impact.

In television, she produced two documentaries with Deepak Chopra, The Crystal Cave and Alchemy: The Art of Spiritual Transformation. She also wrote and produced the documentary series, Made in America, about immigrants, focusing on the challenges and triumphs of the human spirit. It received an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) nomination for best documentary series.

She holds three Certificates of Recognition in mediumship, spiritual healing and public speaking from the Spiritualist National Union governing body of the Arthur Findlay College in London where she trained. She has just completed a memoir Till Death Don't Us Part about her spiritual journey and is working on a new non-fiction book about the nature and representation of the ghost in contemporary literature and media.

She has a private mediumship and healing practice in New York and Dublin. ...more

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	The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America 3.49 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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