Thoughts and Reflections through the seasons Continue reading
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Conversation Before a Hanging
Reading and Q&A with Mary Kenny on 17 September – Co. Meath and 18 September – Co Offaly Continue reading
Something of Myself… and Others
A short, personal and sometimes quirky book recalling some journalistic assignments and interviews in Mary’s experience Continue reading
Crown and Shamrock
In her most recent book, Mary Kenny – drawing on research at the Royal Archives in Windsor as well the Irish archives, and personal reminisce by a number of people – examines the complex and contradictory relationship between Ireland and the Crown. Continue reading
Germany Calling
William Joyce, who came to be immortalised as “Lord Haw-Haw” was born in America of English-Irish parents, grew up in Galway in the West of Ireland, became a fierce British patriot when he came to England and then embraced Nazi Germany in 1939. His sense of national allegiance was a little crazy and mixed-up, to say the least. Continue reading
Allegiance
A play about Michael Collins and Winston Churchill Background & Context In 1921, the Irish rebel leader Michael Collins was ordered to travel to London – with Arthur Griffith and the Irish delegation – to negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty which followed the Truce and the War of Independence. Collins loathed the assignment and protested vehemently: … Continue reading
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