Hugh O'Shaughnessy

Hugh O'Shaughnessy (born 21 January 1935) is an Irish journalist and writer.

Hugh O'Shaughnessy was educated at Worcester College, Oxford where he received a BA in Modern Languages. He has written for over 40 years for major newspapers including The Economist, The Observer, The Independent, The Irish Times, the Financial Times and most frequently The Guardian; and he has made many reports for BBC News. O'Shaughnessy has published a number of books and articles focusing on Latin American politics, making many trips to Central and South America in order to study social and political issues. He was a friend of Chilean president Salvador Allende. He is also the author of commentaries on the politics of Catholicism. He is founder of the Latin America Bureau.

O'Shaughnessy has several awards, including two British Press Awards, the 1986 Maria Moors Cabot prize for journalistic contributions to inter-American understanding and the Wilberforce Medallion from the city of Hull. He has been recognised by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the United States.

He lives in London. He married Georgina Alliston (1937-2011, daughter of architect Jane Drew) in 1961, and they had four children.

• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Engagement to Europe, Open Library, Liberal Publications Dept (1965) OL20273667M
• Kris E. Lane, foreward by Hugh O'Shaughnessy Blood and Silver: the history of piracy in the Caribbean and Central America, Oxford, Signal (1967) and (1999)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy What future for the Amerindians of South America?, Minority Rights Group report (1973) ISBN 978-0-9031-1415-8
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Oil in Latin America, Financial Times (1976) ISBN 978-0-9006-7163-0
• Jan Karmali, Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Andrew Pollak Nicaragua: dictatorship and revolution, Latin America Bureau (1979)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Relations with Central American and Caribbean countries, Enstone, Oxon: Ditchley Foundation (1981)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Towards a Democratic Central America, Fabian Society (1984) ISBN 978-0-7163-0499-9
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: revolution, invasion and aftermath, Sphere Books (1984) ISBN 978-0-7221-6561-4 also Hamish Hamilton (1984) ISBN 978-0-2411-1290-8
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Grenada: An eyewitness account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it, Dodd Mead (1985) ISBN 978-0-3960-8524-9
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Latin Americans, BBC Books (1988) ISBN 978-0-5632-1393-2
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Around the Spanish Main: Travels in the Caribbean and the Guianas, Ebury Press (1991) ISBN 978-0-7126-3807-4
• Geoff Spink (ed.) The best of "From Our Own Correspondent" v.4, BBC (1993) Transcript of radio journalism including Hugh O'Shaughnessy on Latin America ISBN 978-1-8504-3783-3
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy East Timor: getting away with murder?, London, British Coalition for East Timor (1994) ISBN 978-0-9523-1860-6
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Brazilian energy: privatisation and the market, London, Financial Times Energy Publishing (c1997)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Mexican energy: a Market in transition, London, Financial Times Energy Publishing (c1998)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, Latin America Bureau (1999) ISBN 978-1-8993-6541-8 also NYU Press (2000) ISBN 978-0-8147-6201-1
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy, with Sue Branford Chemical warfare in Colombia: The Costs of Coca Fumigation Latin America Bureau (2005) ISBN 978-1-8993-6568-5
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy and F. Goldman Taking on the rich: the art of political murder, New Statesman (2008)
• Hugh O'Shaughnessy and Edgar Venerando Ruiz Díaz The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the making of a nation, Zed Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-8481-3312-9 ISBN 978-1-8481-3313-6 ISBN 978-1-8481-3314-3