Eamon Dunphy Unleashed: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus

by Joe Jackson

(Author's Note January 3rd. Some typos have been identified, are being corrected) In 1996 Irish Times journalist Joe Jackson did what is widely regarded as the definitive, in-depth, eleven hour interview with U2 biographer, author, former footballer, sports commentator and columnist Eamon Dunphy. It also was described as one of Jackson's most memorable interviews by The Sunday Times and created a media storm in Ireland. This book contains the full text of the entire interview, including a cut and/or censored 1,669 word discussion of U2, plus much previously unpublished material from that interview. It also contains a follow up interview, from 2000, reflecting, in part, on the repercussions of the first interview, a Joe Jackson Files article from 2010 on Dunphy and a new preface, written in December 2012. The author describes the book as "practically Dunphy's memoir, in his own words, and certainly a psycho-sexual study of the guy we Irish like to call "Eamo".

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 30, 2012

About the author

Joe Jackson is an Irish journalist, author, broadcaster best known for interviews. He did first major interview in 1985, with a life-long hero, Leonard Cohen and have since worked for twenty years for an Irish rock magazine, eleven years for The Irish Times and ten years for the Sunday Independent.

His work also has been published in magazines worldwide, including Rolling Stone, Playboy, Humo, Hello, Woman's Own, and anthologised in books. His first book, in 1996, was titled Troubadours and Troublemakers (Ireland Now: A Culture Reclaimed)