Biography
Alan has worked extensively in Film, TV and Radio for over ten years. His credits include the feature film, “There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble”; Life Is Short – North West Vision’s Digital Short Film Scheme – “In Memoriam”; “The Insiders – MUTV Documentary, Take That at Wembley – The Circus, behind the Scenes Documentary, to name a few.
Alan has been the stadium announcer at Manchester United, (“the Voice of Old Trafford”) for over 10 years.
He also has the distinction of having been the stadium announcer at Manchester City and Wembley National Stadium. He has also worked on local radio in Manchester and is a published author.
In the ten years that Alan has been employed as a stadium announcer, he says the role has changed a lot. Alan now finds himself the public voice of a global brand, be it for United or when there is a concert at Wembley National Stadium.
While the job remains enjoyable, from encouraging visits to the Club website, the club’s charity activities, or notifying those present of the day’s match sponsor, the stadium announcer now has an important commercial role to play.
Author - Research Interests / Books
Alan has had two books published, both tracing the integration of Irish immigrants in Manchester. From an Irish background himself, Alan had substantial personal insight into the ability of many Irish migrants, who had arrived with little or no money and often very limited education, to create opportunities for their offspring.
The first book took the form of a photographical history of post-war Irish history, and arose form Alan’s belief that there were too few works focusing specifically on this area while periods such as the Famine have been the subject of much more analysis. It covered, among other areas, the social, musical and sporting contribution of the Irish to the region.
Through the success of ‘Irish Manchester’, the books’ publishers approached Alan to produce another. This book, appropriately named ‘More Irish Manchester’, was also a photo-history, and was the product of a collaboration between Alan and Danny Claffey, who has worked for two decades as a photographer for the Irish Post newspaper in the North West of England.
Alan’s publishers have approached him for a third text, which is likely to be an academic analysis of the recounted experiences of Irish immigrants.
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