Podcast appearances and mentions of Mary Kenny

“You can tell a lot about a society by the names it gives its babies.” So says Mary Kenny, Journalist, Writer and Columnist with the Irish Independent who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

“You can tell a lot about a society by the names it gives its babies.” So says Mary Kenny, Journalist, Writer and Columnist with the Irish Independent who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

Mark Carruthers is joined by Sam McBride, Mark Hennessy, Mary Kenny and Colum Eastwood to assess how global politics are influencing the Irish question.

You may have a parent, or elderly loved one whose driving may have become problematic…But, why do some elderly find it so hard when it comes to giving up driving? And, when is the right time for them to quit?Mary Kenny, Journalist for the Irish Independent, joins Seán to discuss.

You may have a parent, or elderly loved one whose driving may have become problematic…But, why do some elderly find it so hard when it comes to giving up driving? And, when is the right time for them to quit?Mary Kenny, Journalist for the Irish Independent, joins Seán to discuss.

Journalist, author and trailblazing feminist Nell McCafferty has died a the age of 80. Her family confirmed her death this morning at a nursing home in Co Donegal. We hear from Mary Kenny, author and columnist with the Irish Independent and founded the Irish Women's Liberation Movement with Nell in 1970.

Journalist, author and trailblazing feminist Nell McCafferty has died a the age of 80. Her family confirmed her death this morning at a nursing home in Co Donegal. We hear from Mary Kenny, author and columnist with the Irish Independent and founded the Irish Women's Liberation Movement with Nell in 1970.

Young people today are often praised for being very sexually confident and open minded. But does this mean they are having better sex? Or was sex better back in the 70's, when it was seen as more rebellious?Mary Kenny pondered this in the Irish Independent, and joined Seán to discuss.

Young people today are often praised for being very sexually confident and open minded. But does this mean they are having better sex? Or was sex better back in the 70's, when it was seen as more rebellious?Mary Kenny pondered this in the Irish Independent, and joined Seán to discuss.

Joe is joined by Sinéad Murray, Information, Membership and Communications Officer of Treoir and Mary Kenny of Women and Mothers United to debate the upcoming referendums, with Sinéad Murray calling for a YES/YES vote and from the NO/NO side, Mary Kenny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pauric White knows what's hot or not when it comes to kitchen equipment, Carmine Rodi Falanga offered plenty of pointers on deciphering fake news, Mary Kenny has her finger on the pulse when it comes to the Royal Family and Alan Bradley's new documentary on stalking is well worth checking out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

January 6, is Nollaig na mBan, traditionally a day that rewards women for their hard work over the Christmas season. While that idea might now seem somewhat antiquated, it is still important to recognise the role women play in Irish society and to reflect on just how far we've come and how far we have to go when it comes to creating true equality. Joining Steffanie Preissner to discuss is journalist Mary Kenny, who was among those on the Contraception Train in 1971 & singer, Mary Coughlan who is taking part in this year's Nollaig na mBan festival.

“In the mad rush to ensure that every young person has a degree, we risk losing sight of the real goal – providing quality education that equips individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world.” - so wrote Lorraine Courtney in the Irish Independent. We asked the view of Mary Kenny, Author, Journalist & Irish Independent Columnist.

“In the mad rush to ensure that every young person has a degree, we risk losing sight of the real goal – providing quality education that equips individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world.” - so wrote Lorraine Courtney in the Irish Independent. We asked the view of Mary Kenny, Author, Journalist & Irish Independent Columnist.

“Dublin is not the warm-hearted place it once was, London is often much friendlier “ That's the title of an article written by Journalist, Writer, and Columnist with the Irish Independent, Mary Kenny who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

“Dublin is not the warm-hearted place it once was, London is often much friendlier “ That's the title of an article written by Journalist, Writer, and Columnist with the Irish Independent, Mary Kenny who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

The Barbie-doll look has had a strong, even conformist, impact on how women are “supposed” to look” - That's the view of journalist Mary Kenny who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

The Barbie-doll look has had a strong, even conformist, impact on how women are “supposed” to look” - That's the view of journalist Mary Kenny who spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

A cartoon in a UK newspaper, depicting the US President as a leprechaun, has been heavily criticised. The drawing appears in The Times of London, and shows President Biden wearing a green shamrock suit while holding a pint of Guinness and dancing. It also shows him with a speech bubble, which reads: "I just love Northern Ireland". Kieran was joined by Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times journalist and author, Brendan O'Neill, Chief Political Writer, Spiked Online and Mary Kenny, writer and journalist to discuss…

"The conversation University of Limerick thought was too dangerous for students to hear: John and Sarah sit down with Mary Kenny to discuss the state of modern feminism"

"The conversation University of Limerick thought was too dangerous for students to hear: John and Sarah sit down with Mary Kenny to discuss the state of modern feminism"

Siobhán Garrgian's guests are journalist and author Mary Kenny, artist Rachel Fallon and climate justice campaigner Lorna Gold.

Fiona Mitchell, RTÉ Reporter; Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach; John Bruton, Former Taoiseach; John Simpson, World Affairs Editor with the BBC; Doug Beattie, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; Mary Kenny, Journalist, Broadcaster and Playwright & Simon Hoare, Tory MP

Fiona Mitchell, RTÉ Reporter; Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach; John Bruton, Former Taoiseach; John Simpson, World Affairs Editor with the BBC; Doug Beattie, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; Mary Kenny, Journalist, Broadcaster and Playwright & Simon Hoare, Tory MP

Great to catch up with Paul and Mary Kenny from Woodlands Stud NZ. The Kenny's were at Northern Rivers Equine Veterinary Clinic & Llowalong Farms Stallion Parade and I caught up with them after the parade for a chat.

Mark Carruthers is joined by former BBC presenter Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist Alex Massie and Irish writer Mary Kenny to ask how successfully the UK is holding together.

No other woman who never set foot on the island—with the possible exception of Queen Elizabeth I—has had a greater effect on the history of Ireland. But who was Katharine O'Shea (née Wood)? And what if she and Charles Stewart Parnell never met? Listen to History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, discuss this contrafactual with Mary Kenny, Patrick Maume, Daniel Mulhall, and Margaret O'Callaghan.   This podcast is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative. Image: Katharine O'Shea 

In 1930, the American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote these chilling words: 'The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.' It's an idea that, for many of us, is harder to shrug off now than it was a year ago. Loneliness has many dimensions and, after nearly a year of intermittent lockdowns, its consequences are piling up. We've talked before on Holy Smoke about the lockdown's devastating effect on churchgoing – but, as my guest Mary Kenny points out, there's been an across-the-board suspension of the small-scale social activities that mean so much in particular for older people. As she says, many Britons in their 70s and 80s are wondering if they'll live to see another coffee morning. A depressing topic then, but, this being the irrepressible Mary, our conversation veers off in all sorts of quirky directions. The best quote comes from her late husband, the brilliant maverick war correspondent Richard West: 'To be young, penniless, living in Paris, in love and dying of consumption – what could be more wonderful that that?' What on earth did he mean? You'll have to listen to find out.

Damian's guest, the celebrated Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright Mary Kenny, offers a nuanced analysis of the powerful and paradoxical world in which she grew up: one in which Catholic clergy and lay people could be simultaneously fervently pious, warm-hearted and yet paralysed by petty snobbery. She talks about how the Irish Free State handed far too much power to bishops and priests. In effect, they replaced the disappearing Anglo-Irish nobility as the new aristocracy of rural Ireland, exercising an authority over people's lives that could be generous or malevolent and sometimes a mixture of both.  Holy Smoke is a series of podcasts where Damian Thompson dissects the most important and controversial topics in world religion, with a range of high profile guests. Click here (https://audioboom.com/channel/holy-smoke) to find previous episodes.

Rarely has a religious culture collapsed more rapidly than that of Catholic Ireland, which just 30 years ago seemed indestructible. Incredibly, it looks as if the Irish Church will have ordained more bishops than priests in 2020. It goes without saying that the Irish abuse crisis has hugely accelerated the process of secularisation in what was once the most Catholic of countries. Young people in Ireland now refer to the clergy with a withering disdain verging on hatred.  My guest today, the celebrated Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright Mary Kenny, offers a more nuanced analysis of the powerful and paradoxical world in which she grew up: one in which Catholic clergy and lay people could be simultaneously fervently pious, warm-hearted and yet paralysed by petty snobbery. She talks about how the Irish Free State handed far too much power to bishops and priests. In effect, they replaced the disappearing Anglo-Irish nobility as the new aristocracy of rural Ireland, exercising an authority over people's lives that could be generous or malevolent and sometimes a mixture of both. I think it's a gripping interview, full of the little details that make Irish short stories so compulsively readable. 

I made this show to be broadcast at Christmas 2018 as a kind of public service by RTE Radio 1, in my series the Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited. The interview was originally done in 1999, at the time of Mary Kenny's book, Death by heroin; Recovery by Hope. And as I say in the intro to the radio show I wanted to remind people prior to their Christmas excesses, about the dangers of drugs such as heroin. Sadly, RTE "pulled" the show. But happily, for me, and hopefully for listeners, it may pass on that warning and much more good info, as we head into Christmas celebration in 2020. 

Mark is joined by columnists Mary Kenny, Fintan O'Toole & BBC's John Campbell.

French writer Pauline Harmange has written an essay where she insists that women should have the right to not like men. But is it ok to so brazen tell people that you 'hate men'? Sunday Independent journalist Niamh Horan and writer Mary Kenny discussed on Friday's edition of The Hard Shoulder.

The Oldie's Ferdie Rous talks to Ed West, the Deputy editor of UnHerd and son of Oldie columnist Mary Kenny, about why all conservatives are pessimists and why men are guided by women in politics

Inspiring grandmothers, fearless female journalists from Marian Finucane to Mary Kenny, and International Women’s Day under Communism. With Andrea Martin, Quentin Fottrell, Bernadett Buda, Gerald Dawe, Lourdes Mackey, and Denise Blake

Mary Kenny, one of the founders of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, talks to The Oldie's Ferdie Rous about her fifty years on Fleet Street, gender and Ireland's Brexit moment.

Mary enlightens course-goers, telling them that 'only a blockhead goes into journalism for money' in her session on 'How to Write a Column' – something she has been doing now, for the best part of 50 years.

Inside Books is a fortnightly programme presented by Breda Brown. This episode features Mary Kenny on Feminism and Maria Dickenson talks about Dubray Books

In our latest episode, we chat with Mary Kenny and Jason Liang about their joint favorite childhood film, and a film near and dear to our hearts, Mulan! (We also throw serious shade on Mulan II... just don't do it, except as a drinking game).

In the Light of Eva's Shadow by Mary Kenny, with Kathy Rose O'Brien as Eva Braun and Cathy Belton as Nurse Anna Strauss: Produced by Aidan Mathews

Recorded at the London Irish Centre, Camden, 25 January 2017. At the heart of the past year's commemoration of the 1916 Rising has been consideration of Ireland's evolving relationship with the United Kingdom — from being an integral part of it, to Home Rule devolution (realised in the North but not in the South), to Commonwealth dominion, sovereign republic (albeit partitioned), and finally co-members of the European Union. An implicit assumption in this exercise has been the contrast between an Irish state of flux and the apparent stability of the UK. Brexit has now turned this assumption on its head, with major implications for the European Union, the Northern Ireland peace process and the UK itself. To discuss these and related matters History Ireland editor Tommy Graham was joined for a lively round table discussion by Dan Mulhall (Irish ambassador to the UK), Mary Kenny (writer & journalist), Michael Kennedy (Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), and Martin Mansergh (vice-chair of the Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations).  The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History Ireland and the Wordwell Group. For more information or to subscribe, visit historyireland.com Supported by the Commemorations Unit of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative.

John Bruton, Dan O'Brien and Cormac Lucey are joined by Ann Widdecombe and Mary Kenny to discuss Brexit

Perhaps the best adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut work, Mother Night stars Nick Nolte as Howard W. Campbell, Jr. an American playwright whose Nazi broadcasts may have helped America win the war. But, at what cost?

Libby Purves meets crossword setter John Halpern; historian and travel writer John Julius Norwich; journalist Mary Kenny and actor Imogen Stubbs. John Halpern is a crossword setter. His work features in the Guardian (under the name Paul), the Financial Times (as Mudd) and the Times (Anon). His new book, The Centenary of the Crossword, starts with the story of Arthur Wynne - a journalist from Liverpool who created the first crossword on December 21 1913. The book includes inside information about how crosswords are compiled, tips for solving different types of clues and examples of puzzles from prominent setters around the world. The Centenary of the Crossword is published by Andre Deutsch. John Julius Norwich is an historian, travel writer and broadcaster. The only son of Lady Diana and Duff Cooper, his new book features correspondence from his mother between 1939 and 1952. The letters recount her experiences during the Blitz and life with her society friends Evelyn Waugh and the Mitfords. Darling Monster - The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich is published by Chatto & Windus. Mary Kenny is an Irish journalist, author, playwright and broadcaster. She has written for over 25 newspapers over a career spanning four decades. In her new book she recalls her life from her days as a young reporter for the London Evening Standard to coping with the responsibility of being a full time carer for her husband. Something of Myself and Others is published by Liberties Press. Imogen Stubbs is an actor and writer. She discovered her passion for acting while studying at Oxford University. She is best known for her stage performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as Desdemona in Othello opposite Willard White which was directed by Trevor Nunn. She is currently starring in Strangers on a Train by Craig Warner at the Gielgud Theatre, London. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Recorded at Rathmines College. Motion: This house believes that, as there is a right to life, there is an equal right to a self determined death with dignity. For the motion: Student Claire Whelan and co-ordinator of Exit International, Tom Curran. Against the motion: Student David Hollywood and journalist, author and public speaker, Mary Kenny.

Would Jesus do professionally, politically and religiously if he walked the earth today? Jewish author Yanky Fachler, Rev. Darren McCallig, Mary Kenny and Prof. Sean Freyne discuss. An extended edition of the programme is available for podcast.