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Mary Kenny

Canterbury, Deal, Dublin
As seen in: Irish Independent, The Irish Catholic, MSN Ireland, Daily Mail, Daily Mail Femail, Irish Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Guardian Australia, The Telegraph, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo News Australia, ABC News (Australia) and
Veteran journo, stage-struck writer still aspiring to be playwright, hat-wearer, Francophone and femme de lettres.
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Emotional abuse or independent education?

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By Mary Kenny
| The Irish Catholic Verified
Emotional abuse or independent education? Glenstal Abbey School, a seven-day boarding school for boys, part of a Benedictine monastic community, in Murroe, Co Limerick, to close within two years. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / James Anthony O’Hare. There’s one form of education that is in decline in both Ireland and Britain: boarding school. Only 25 schools in Ireland are now of the boarding variety: in the 1960s there were around 125.
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Today’s scandals help us understand ‘Victorian values’

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By Mary Kenny
| The Irish Catholic Verified
Princesses Louise, Maud and Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1890. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. Many books, articles and TV documentaries and discussions have made the point that the Catholic Church in Ireland was, in its time, too puritanical, and repressive about sexual matters. From sociologists like Tom Inglis, who wrote Moral Monopoly, to T.P. O’Mahony, who recently published Forbidden Ireland, the takeaway message has been the same. There was…
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Recalling a valued aspect of Irish faith heritage

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By Mary Kenny
| The Irish Catholic Verified
Growing up in suburban Dublin, I had no experience of the ritual of the ‘Stations’. Learning about this sacred and domestic Irish practice in later life, I have come to think of it as a fascinating aspect of our heritage. As most people know, the Stations were a quarterly ritual involving the priest coming to…
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