Mary Kenny

An Audience with Mary Kenny interviewed by Aine Lawlor of Morning Ireland. 3pm – 4.30pm. Rathmines Library

Rathmines Festival is delighted to host An Audience with Mary Kenny. Ms Kenny will be interviewed by renowned broadcast journalist Aine Lawlor.

Mary Kenny is on of Ireland’s most perceptive, challenging and controversial journalists. Author of “Crown and Shamrock” which examines the relationship between Ireland and the British monarchy and “Germany Calling” a personal biography of Lord Haw-Haw, William Joyce, she was also author of the play Allegiance, in which Mel Smith played Winston Churchill at the Edinburgh Festival.

She has written for a large number of UK and Irish broadsheet newspapers, including The Irish Independent, The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and The Spectator .

As a founder of the Orish feminist movement in 1971 she travelled with Nell McCafferty, June Levine and other feminists on the so-called “Contraceptive Train” from Dublin to Belfast to buy condoms, then illegal in Ireland.

Aine Lawlor will interview Ms Kenny. Aine who co-presents Morning Ireland, the flagship morning news programme on Radio One is now one of RTÉ’s most seasoned broadcasters as well as one of Ireland’s most recognised voices and incisive interviewers.