Mary Kenny is an experienced journalist, author and broadcaster working in England and Ireland. She has written for over 30 newspapers and magazines over the course of her career.
Her books include Germany Calling, a personal biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw, (currently commended by the University of the Third Age for the original exploration of Joyce’s Irish background), Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy (which was used as an information template for Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit to the Irish Republic in 2011), and Goodbye to Catholic Ireland, a social history of Ireland over the lifetime of her parents. Her play Allegiance, about Winston Churchill’s private meeting with Michael Collins in 1921, was performed at Edinburgh (and has since toured in Ireland). At Edinburgh, Michael Fassbender played Collins (and the late Mel Smith was Churchill).
Mary wrote a selective memoir in 2013, Something of Myself – and Others, which included a long autobiographical essay about being a carer for her husband, Richard West, after he suffered from a stroke. (Richard, a noted journalist and author, died in 2015.) A Day at a Time, is a collection of reflections, published in December 2016. Mary writes a column for the Irish Independent Magazine each Saturday on a wide range of issues – personal, historical and culture. Her latest book is Am I a Feminist? and is published by New Island.