Mary Kenny



Profile:
Full name: Mary Kenny

Area of interest: Society and Values; Women's issues; Relationship between England and Ireland

Journals: The Times

Email: mary@mary-kenny.com

Website/blog: MaryKenny.com; Comment is free

Agent: contact Mary Kenny

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Biography:
Education: Birkbeck College, London University: French studies

Career: Originally a reporter on the London Evening Standard, has written for over twenty newspapers, including The Guardian, Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Times, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Times, and the Catholic Herald, see: comment is free - profile Current position: Freelance journalist

Other posts: Author, Playwright, Broadcaster

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Controversy/Criticism: Resigned from position as Daily Express columnist in 2000 following the journal's takeover by Richard Desmond

Books: Germany calling: a personal biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw (Dublin: New Island, 2003) OCLC 52784321

Latest work: Working on a study of the relations between the British monarchy and the Irish people, from Queen Victoria to Prince William, to be published in 2008

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Other: Married to writer, Richard West

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The Times:
Column name: Mary Kenny

Column remit: Society and Values

Section: Comment and News

Role: Guest contributor and 'Thunderer'

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Links to recent Times articles:

 * Passing laws will never sober up Britain - Legal drinking age - 17th August 2007
 * Marry young: matrimony is wasted on the old - When to marry - 16th April 2007
 * Winterval. It's just what I want for Christmas - Christian traditions - 11th December 2006
 * See related: Welcome to Winterval - Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 22nd December 2000
 * The wheel turns - but nothing changes - Family structure and change - 28th December 2006
 * Don't call me a fascist, you racist - Definitions of Fascism and racism - 17th November 2006
 * Shopping? Are you serious? - Young women's apirations - 23rd August 2006
 * To be a burden is to be truly human - Care for the sick and old and dying - 18th August 2006

Links to recent Telegraph articles:

 * The sad story of Ursula's ashes - New York bodysnatchers - 11th October 2007
 * What is done easily is done frequently - Abortion - 16th February 2007
 * Coffin-dodgers relish life's absurdities - Anti-ageist legislation - 13th October 2006
 * It's against women's nature to want to lead - Women's career choices - 3rd October 2006
 * The world is full of remarried men... Second marriages - 6th September 2006
 * When only 'I do', will do... - Cohabiting - 12th July 2006
 * If you want your share, get married - Equalising cohabitation with marriage - 1st June 2006

