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'''Redmond O'Hanlon''' [[FRGS]] [[FRSL]] is an English writer and scholar.


==Early life and education ==
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'''Redmond O'Hanlon, [[FRGS]], [[FRSL]]''' (born 5 June 1947) is an English writer and scholar.
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O'Hanlon was born in [[Dorset]], England. He was educated at [[Marlborough College]] and then [[Oxford University]]. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]]. He completed his doctoral thesis, ''Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920'', in 1977.{{cn|date=June 2023}}

==Life==
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O'Hanlon was born in 1947 in [[Dorset]], England. He was educated at [[Marlborough College]] and then [[Oxford University]]. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]]. He completed his doctoral thesis, ''Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920'', in 1977.


Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became a militant [[atheist]] upon his discovery of the works of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref>" He had been very religious as a boy — 'You have to be to survive being brought up in a vicarage' — but he became, on discovering Darwin at 14, not merely an agnostic, but a militant atheist, much to his father's distress. They still don't talk about it. His mother, he says, is also very religious but in an emotional way: 'She believes that in heaven she will be reunited with every spaniel she has ever owned.' While O'Hanlon was away in Africa, his older brother, a book rep, took Belinda and the children to communion. O'Hanlon was shocked, but 'I decided not to be angry about it. A real atheist, you see, is not exercised about it.' " Lynn Barber interviewing O'Hanlon, 'Carry On Up the Congo', ''The Observer'', October 13, 1996, ''The Observer Review Page, Pg. 7.</ref>
Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an [[atheist]] upon his discovery of the works of [[Charles Darwin]].<ref>" He had been very religious as a boy — 'You have to be to survive being brought up in a vicarage' — but he became, on discovering Darwin at 14, not merely an agnostic, but a militant atheist, much to his father's distress. They still don't talk about it. His mother, he says, is also very religious but in an emotional way: 'She believes that in heaven she will be reunited with every spaniel she has ever owned.' While O'Hanlon was away in Africa, his older brother, a book rep, took Belinda and the children to communion. O'Hanlon was shocked, but 'I decided not to be angry about it. A real atheist, you see, is not exercised about it.' " Lynn Barber interviewing O'Hanlon, 'Carry On Up the Congo', ''The Observer'', 13 October 1996, ''The Observer Review Page, Pg. 7.</ref>


== Career ==
From 1970–74, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]].<ref name="bc">{{cite web|title =Redmond O'Hanlon: Biography|publisher=British Council|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/redmond-ohanlon|accessdate=16 March 2016}}</ref>
From 1970 to 1974, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]].<ref name="bc">{{cite web|title =Redmond O'Hanlon: Biography|publisher=British Council| url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/redmond-ohanlon|accessdate=16 March 2016}}</ref>


He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] in 1984 and a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 1993. For fifteen years he was the natural history editor of the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000024249,00.html|title=Redmond O'Hanlon|publisher=Penguin Books|accessdate=4 October 2014}}</ref>
He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] in 1984 and a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 1993. For 15 years, he was the natural history editor of ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000024249,00.html|title=Redmond O'Hanlon|publisher=Penguin Books|accessdate=4 October 2014}}</ref>


O'Hanlon has become known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world,<ref name="bc" /> in Borneo, the Amazon basin and Congo. He has also written a harrowing account of a trip to the North Atlantic on a [[fishing trawler|trawler]].
O'Hanlon has become known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world,<ref name="bc" /> in Borneo, the Amazon basin and Congo. He has also written a harrowing account of a trip to the North Atlantic on a [[fishing trawler|trawler]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Hanlon |first1=Redmond |title=Trawler |date=2005 |publisher=Vintage Departures |location=New York |isbn=1-4000-7810-5}}</ref>


Between September 2009 and May 2010, Redmond O'Hanlon was a guest and co-presenter on the programme ''[[Beagle: In Darwin's wake]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/talen/item/12|title=Beagle website|publisher=VPRO|accessdate=15 March 2010}}</ref> for both [[Canvas (Belgium)|Canvas]] in Belgium and [[VPRO]] Television in the [[Netherlands]]. In the programme, the clipper ''[[Stad Amsterdam]]'' re-traced the route that Charles Darwin took aboard {{HMS|Beagle}} (1831–36), a journey that played a seminal role in his thinking on [[evolution]].
Between September 2009 and May 2010, O'Hanlon was a guest and co-presenter on the programme ''[[Beagle: In Darwin's wake]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beagle.vpro.nl/#/talen/item/12|title=Beagle website|publisher=VPRO|accessdate=15 March 2010}}</ref> for both [[Canvas (Belgium)|Canvas]] in Belgium and [[VPRO]] Television in the [[Netherlands]]. In the programme, the clipper ''[[Stad Amsterdam]]'' re-traced the route that Charles Darwin took aboard {{HMS|Beagle}} (1831–36), a journey that played a seminal role in his thinking on [[evolution]].{{cn|date=June 2023}}


He attended the [[Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010|''Science & Technology Summit'']] at the [[World Forum Convention Center]] in [[The Hague]] on 18 November 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.summit2010.nl/?pid=9|title=Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010|publisher=Platform Bèta Techniek (PBT)|accessdate=18 December 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502023437/http://www.summit2010.nl/?pid=9|archivedate=2 May 2012|df=}}</ref> Fellow ''Beagle'' shipmate [[Sarah Darwin]] was another featured guest at this convention. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}
O'Hanlon attended the [[Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010|''Science & Technology Summit'']] at the [[World Forum Convention Center]] in [[The Hague]] on 18 November 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.summit2010.nl/?pid=9|title=Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010|publisher=Platform Bèta Techniek (PBT)|accessdate=18 December 2011 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502023437/http://www.summit2010.nl/?pid=9|archivedate=2 May 2012}}</ref> Fellow ''Beagle'' shipmate [[Sarah Darwin]] was another featured guest at this convention. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}


In November 2011 VPRO Television began broadcasting ''O'Hanlons helden'' (English: O'Hanlon's heroes).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vpro.nl/ohanlonshelden|title=O’Hanlons Helden website|publisher=VPRO|accessdate=18 December 2011|language=nl}}</ref> In this eight-part series O'Hanlon introduces the viewer to his heroes of the nineteenth century. The programme was awarded with the prestigious Dutch television award, ''De Zilveren Nipkowschijf'' (English: The Silver [[Nipkow disk]]). This Silver 1st prize is awarded annually by a professional jury to the best quality television programme. A second eight-part series of ''O'Hanlons helden'' was broadcast in the winter of 2013–2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vpro.nl/buitenland/nieuws/2013/11/o-hanlons-helden.html|title=Overzicht O’Hanlons Helden Deel 2|publisher=VPRO|accessdate=4 October 2014|language=nl}}</ref>
In November 2011, VPRO Television began broadcasting ''O'Hanlons helden'' (English: O'Hanlon's heroes).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vpro.nl/ohanlonshelden|title=O'Hanlons Helden website|publisher=VPRO|accessdate=18 December 2011|language=nl}}</ref> In this eight-part series O'Hanlon introduces the viewer to his heroes of the nineteenth century. The programme was awarded the prestigious Dutch television award, ''De Zilveren Nipkowschijf'' (English: The Silver [[Nipkow disk]]). This Silver 1st prize is awarded annually by a professional jury to the best quality television programme. A second eight-part series of ''O'Hanlons helden'' was broadcast during the winter of 2013–2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vpro.nl/buitenland/nieuws/2013/11/o-hanlons-helden.html|title=Overzicht O'Hanlons Helden Deel 2|date=20 January 2014 |publisher=VPRO|accessdate=4 October 2014|language=nl}}</ref>


==Published works==
==Published works==
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* ''Into the Heart of Borneo'' (1984)
* ''Into the Heart of Borneo'' (1984)
* ''In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon'' (1988)
* ''In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon'' (1988)
* ''[[Congo Journey]]'' (1996), American edition: ''No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mystery.knopfdoubleday.com/book/123476/no-mercy/|title=No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo, Vintage Books|publisher= Knopf Doubleday|accessdate=4 October 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Congo Journey]]'' (1996), American edition: ''No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mystery.knopfdoubleday.com/book/123476/no-mercy/|title=No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo, Vintage Books|publisher= Knopf Doubleday|accessdate=4 October 2014}}</ref>
* ''Trawler'' (2005)
* ''Trawler'' (2005)
* [with Rudy Rotthier] ''God, Darwin en natuur'' (2009), English translation: ''The Fetish Room'' (2011)
* [with Rudy Rotthier] ''God, Darwin en natuur'' (2009), English translation: ''The Fetish Room'' (2011)
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5689E3E009d7216CE4TsN303BDE3 Critical perspective at Contemporarywriters.com]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 Article in the Guardian newspaper]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview13 Article in the Guardian newspaper]


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Latest revision as of 22:12, 11 November 2024

For the Irish 17th century outlaw, see Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw).

O'Hanlon at the 2010 Science & Technology Summit in The Hague

Redmond O'Hanlon FRGS FRSL is an English writer and scholar.

Early life and education

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O'Hanlon was born in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at St Antony's College, Oxford. He completed his doctoral thesis, Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920, in 1977.[citation needed]

Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an atheist upon his discovery of the works of Charles Darwin.[1]

Career

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From 1970 to 1974, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain.[2]

He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993. For 15 years, he was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement.[3]

O'Hanlon has become known for his journeys into some of the most remote jungles of the world,[2] in Borneo, the Amazon basin and Congo. He has also written a harrowing account of a trip to the North Atlantic on a trawler.[4]

Between September 2009 and May 2010, O'Hanlon was a guest and co-presenter on the programme Beagle: In Darwin's wake[5] for both Canvas in Belgium and VPRO Television in the Netherlands. In the programme, the clipper Stad Amsterdam re-traced the route that Charles Darwin took aboard HMS Beagle (1831–36), a journey that played a seminal role in his thinking on evolution.[citation needed]

O'Hanlon attended the Science & Technology Summit at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague on 18 November 2010.[6] Fellow Beagle shipmate Sarah Darwin was another featured guest at this convention. [citation needed]

In November 2011, VPRO Television began broadcasting O'Hanlons helden (English: O'Hanlon's heroes).[7] In this eight-part series O'Hanlon introduces the viewer to his heroes of the nineteenth century. The programme was awarded the prestigious Dutch television award, De Zilveren Nipkowschijf (English: The Silver Nipkow disk). This Silver 1st prize is awarded annually by a professional jury to the best quality television programme. A second eight-part series of O'Hanlons helden was broadcast during the winter of 2013–2014.[8]

Published works

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  • Charles Darwin 1809–1882: A Centennial Commemoration (1982) (contributor)
  • Joseph Conrad and Charles Darwin: The Influence of Scientific Thought on Conrad's Fiction (1984)
  • Into the Heart of Borneo (1984)
  • In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (1988)
  • Congo Journey (1996), American edition: No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (1997)[9]
  • Trawler (2005)
  • [with Rudy Rotthier] God, Darwin en natuur (2009), English translation: The Fetish Room (2011)

References

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  1. ^ " He had been very religious as a boy — 'You have to be to survive being brought up in a vicarage' — but he became, on discovering Darwin at 14, not merely an agnostic, but a militant atheist, much to his father's distress. They still don't talk about it. His mother, he says, is also very religious but in an emotional way: 'She believes that in heaven she will be reunited with every spaniel she has ever owned.' While O'Hanlon was away in Africa, his older brother, a book rep, took Belinda and the children to communion. O'Hanlon was shocked, but 'I decided not to be angry about it. A real atheist, you see, is not exercised about it.' " Lynn Barber interviewing O'Hanlon, 'Carry On Up the Congo', The Observer, 13 October 1996, The Observer Review Page, Pg. 7.
  2. ^ a b "Redmond O'Hanlon: Biography". British Council. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Redmond O'Hanlon". Penguin Books. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ O'Hanlon, Redmond (2005). Trawler. New York: Vintage Departures. ISBN 1-4000-7810-5.
  5. ^ "Beagle website". VPRO. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  6. ^ "Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit 2010". Platform Bèta Techniek (PBT). Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  7. ^ "O'Hanlons Helden website" (in Dutch). VPRO. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  8. ^ "Overzicht O'Hanlons Helden Deel 2" (in Dutch). VPRO. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  9. ^ "No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo, Vintage Books". Knopf Doubleday. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
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