Shipping Up to Boston

Kevin Cullen is an author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He has written for the Boston Globe since 1985 where he served as local, national and foreign correspondent before becoming a columnist. Kevin spent more than 20 years covering the conflict in Northern Ireland and in 1994 was honoured by the Overseas Press Club of America for his interpretive reporting from Northern Ireland.

In 1997, Kevin was appointed the Boston Globe’s Dublin bureau chief, covering the peace process in Northern Ireland full time. He was described by the Irish Times as “the most informed American journalist on Irish affairs,” while The Independent of London called him “the most astute observer of Irish affairs in American media.”

In 2001, Kevin returned to Boston where he joined the Globe’s investigative team which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for exposing the cover up of sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests. He is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt that Brought Him to Justice.” In 2014, he won the Mike Royko Award as best columnist chosen by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

In this episode, Liam and Scott speak to Kevin about his life as a journalist, Boston politics, and the future of Irish American politics in the US.