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With a state visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the Irish Republic expected in 2009, the first royal visit since 1911, Mary Kenny traces the complex relationship between the Irish and the British Crown. Based on unique access to the Royal Archives in Windsor, and other historical material as well as on personal memoir, Mary Kenny reveals some previously unappreciated aspects of the Crown and Shamrock, including Edward VII's exceptionally benign attitudes to Catholics, George V's obsessive worries about civil war between North and South, and how Ireland was constitutionally altered (and morally riven) by the Abdication Crisis of 1936. The author of "Goodbye to Catholic Ireland", Mary Kenny also traces the parallel rise of 'Ireland's Alternative Monarchy', the Pope, and the ceremonial role of the Catholic church which all but replaced the ritual of discarded royalty. An engaging and refreshing study of Ireland's relationship with the British Crown, this is a timely and compelling book.
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Mary Kenny is a well-established and often controversial journalist on both sides of the Irish Sea, writing for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Independent among others. In recent years she has turned to social history, and her Goodbye to Catholic Ireland is now used as a teaching text.
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Mary Kenny's interesting and entertaining book traces the relationship between the irish people and the British monarchy from the reign of Queen Victoria up until the present. She shows how different monarch have evoked different feelings in Ireland, with bitter memories of queen Victoria as the 'famine queen' while Edward VII, for instance, created a much more favourable mpression.
I particularly enjoyed her description of the affect that the abdication of Edward VIII had on her mother:
'My mother, then a woman of 34 with three young children, thought it was simply the most romantic story in the world: she also saw it as a tribute to women in general that a woman could wield such power over a king. It meant much more to her- in terms of female empowerment - than carrying placards and placing bombs in letterboxes, as the suffragettes had done.'
A very enjoyable book.
I particularly enjoyed her description of the affect that the abdication of Edward VIII had on her mother:
'My mother, then a woman of 34 with three young children, thought it was simply the most romantic story in the world: she also saw it as a tribute to women in general that a woman could wield such power over a king. It meant much more to her- in terms of female empowerment - than carrying placards and placing bombs in letterboxes, as the suffragettes had done.'
A very enjoyable book.
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