"Writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” So says Mary Kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than introspective author, she does herself less than justice. She is undeniably good company, and has been an active and influential journalist for many years, both in London and Dublin; she has also produced thought-provoking books on Ireland’s relationship with the British monarchy and the decline of Catholicism in the Emerald Isle, an adept stage-play about Winston Churchill and Michael Collins, and a moving memoir. Some of this material is revisited in The Way We Were, but her latest volume implies that along with sociability comes a certain wish to stir things up, embodied in the Irish word “divilment”.
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The Irish Church: saints and sinners
"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster
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