Niall Stanage is the author of Redemption Song: An Irish Reporter Inside the Obama Campaign (Liberties Press, Dublin).

A native of Belfast, Niall has covered the U.S. since 2003 for The Sunday Business Post. He has also reported extensively on Barack Obama for The New York Observer.

He is a former editor of Magill magazine, and his writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The American Spectator, The Irish Times and The Irish Independent among many other titles.

He lives in Harlem, New York.

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