From the Northern Virginia Daily August 11, 2024 by Laura Ruby
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A short video of the interview with Julian Fowler and the BBC Northern Ireland in May 2022 during Colleen’s visit to Northern Ireland when she meets Brendan in person for the first time
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61726811
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Charles Byrne: the Irish Giant/an Fathach Éireannach by director Ronan McCloskey, 2011 (in English and Irish with English subtitles.
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The following media have covered topics related to the story of gigantism in Northern Ireland or Professor Korbonits’ research.
- RTE Radio 1 – Liveline, “On Charles Byrne Skeleton” February 16, 2018
- BBC Radio 4, “Bone Stories” and “Irish Giant” August 15, 2017
- BBC Television ‘The One Show’ -“Why is mid Ulster identified as a ‘giant hotspot’?” August 11, 2017
- “The Saga of The Irish Giant’s Bones Dismays Medical Ethicists,” Nell Greenfield Boyce, March 13, 2017, NPR, All Things Considered, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/13/514117230/the-saga-of-the-irish-giants-bones-dismays-medical-ethicists
- “ ‘Incredible hulk’ mystery of tallest ever Irishman solved,” Patrick Cooper, June 16, 2016, https://www.irishcentral.com/news/incredible-hulk-mystery-of-tallest-ever-irishman-solved-
- BBC Radio Ulster, Interview with Brendan Holland and Thomas Munzier regarding the skeleton of Charles Byrne, Talkback, August 23, 2013
- BBC Television Report, “Scientists testing for Northern Ireland giant gene” February 8, 2013
- BBC Radio 4, “A Tall Story,” February 28, 2011
- “How an Irish giant and an 18th-century surgeon could help people with growth disorders,” Vivienne Parry, January 11, 2011, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/11/irish-giant-genetic-mutation-growth-disorder
- BBC World Service Radio- Science in Action with Vivienne Parry, January 6, 2011
- “In a Giant’s Story, a New Chapter Writ by His DNA,” Gina Kolata, January 5, 2011, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/health/06giant.html