John Waters (columnist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Irish columnist
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Place of Birth: Castlerea, Connacht, Ireland
About John Waters (columnist)
- John Waters (born 28 May 1955) is an Irish columnist and author whose career began in 1981 with the Irish political-music magazine Hot Press.
- He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin magazine and Magill.
- Waters has written several books and, in 1998, he devised The Whoseday Book — which contains quotes, writings and pictures of 365 Irish writers and musicians – that raised some €3 million for the Irish Hospice Foundation.He wrote a weekly Friday column for The Irish Times.
- He was briefly fired during a dispute with the then editor, Geraldine Kennedy, but was shortly thereafter reinstated.
- In March 2014, Waters left The Irish Times, and shortly after started writing columns for the Sunday Independent and Irish Independent.
- In 2018 he released a new book called Give Us Back the Bad Roads.
- Waters is a fortnightly contributor to the American journal First Things and is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame.
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