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Mary Kenny

Autor(a) de Goodbye to Catholic Ireland

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Mary Kenny is a veteran journalist who has been published in over thirty publications on both sides of the Irish Sea. Along with columns and commentaries in daily and weekly newspapers in Dublin and London, she has written for the Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement and tire Literary Review; mostrar mais she is a regular columnist for the Irish Independent, the Catholic Herald and the Irish Catholic and contributes to the Guardian, the Times and the Daily Telegraph. She has authored several books including Germany Calling: A personal biography of William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw) Goodbye to Catholic Ireland: Crown Shamrock - Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy, as well as a historical play on the Anglo-Irish Treaty entitled Allegiance: Michael Collins and Winston Churchill 1921-22. Mary is also an experienced broadcaster and public speaker. She was a founder member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement and one of the authors of its manifesto document, Chains or Change. mostrar menos

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Where once the Irish identity was almost inextricably bound up with Catholicism, today the modern Irish are inclined to distance themselves from the Church, to criticize and even reject everything that was once spelled out by the very words "Catholic Ireland". It would not be excessive to claim that there is in Dublin today a sense of shame about Ireland's association with Catholicism.

Mary Kenny charts this change not only through orthodox historical sources, but through personal and social detail, autobiographical anecdote, popular literature, devotional literature, lonely-hearts quests and the prayers of irish mothers through the decades.… (mais)
 
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StFrancisofAssisi | Apr 30, 2019 |
The visit of Pope John Paul II to Great Britain, 1982.
 
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danmcsw | Mar 26, 2009 |
Good topic - the American-born, Irish-raised half-Englishman who became a wartime radio star broadcasting from Berlin by mocking Britain's ruling classes. But unfortunately the book wastes what could have been a fascinating tale, never capitalizing on Joyce's effect on his mainly working class English (and Irish) listeners. Instead it regales instead a dull and superficial story of his drink-sodden marriage and a lot of unnecessary detail about family members.
 
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aoife | 1 outra resenha | Aug 19, 2008 |
Fascinating insight into a complicated character from his childhood to the end of World War Two. Very well researched and written and quite a fast read too.
 
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strangerover | 1 outra resenha | Mar 15, 2006 |

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150
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