Draft:Damian Corless

Damian Corless is an Irish author, playwright and scriptwriter. He has written several works covering Irish history and culture.

Corless was MTV's first Irish correspondent. He was editor of the culture guide In Dublin before becoming managing editor of the monthly current affairs magazine Magill. He wrote TV comedy sketches for the BBC series Big Train and RTÉ series Stew.

From 2001 to 2019, he was a columnist and feature writer with Independent News & Media, initially with the Herald before moving to the Irish Independent. A 2003 article by Corless, published in the Irish Independent, was mentioned in a Seanad discussion in May 2003. The author of a study of Ireland's climate since the first settlers arrived, he has delivered guest talks on the weather including to Roscommon's annual Percy French Festival, Irish Meteorological Society, and the annual Bloom Horticultural Festival.

His book on the history of Ireland's "love affair with confectionary", You'll Ruin Your Dinner, provided source material for a collaboration between the National College Of Art & Design's MA course in Design History and Material Culture and The Little Museum of Dublin, which yielded an exhibition and accompanying publication entitled The Secret Lives Of Objects - Hidden Histories Of Dublin Design. Corless appeared as a commentator in each instalment of RTE1's 2022 history TV series "The Way We Were". Corless has contributed to a number of radio programs on RTÉ and Newstalk.

His stage comedy 'Death Wish '16 - The GPO' debuted at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival in 2015 with Ardal O'Hanlon as Padraig Pearse and Fred MacAuley as James Connolly. In 2019, Corless was shortlisted for an An Post Book Of The Year Award, alongside singer Christy Dignam, for his work on Dignam's memoir My Crazy World published by Simon & Schuster.