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Mary is an experienced journalist, author, Martin is Vice-Chair of the Expert Advisory
and broadcaster working in England and Group on Centenary Commemorations.
Ireland. She has written for over &' news - Between "''" and "'%%, he was a Fianna
papers and magazines. Her books include Fáil Senator, then TD ( Tipperary South),
Germany Calling, a biography of William and from "''* Minister of State for OPW,
Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw’; Crown and Sham - Finance and the Arts. He was a member
rock: Love and Hate between Ireland and of the British–Irish Parliamentary Body;
the British Mon archy (used as an informa - the Forum for Europe; President Mary
tion template for Queen Elizabeth II’s visit McAleese’s Council of State "'')– %%;
to the Irish Repub lic in "'%%); Goodbye to a political adviser to three Taoisigh
Catholic Ireland, a social history of Ireland (Haughey, Reynolds, and Ahern). He was
over the life time of her parents; and The a back-channel to the Republican Move-
Way We Were. Catholic Ireland since !"## ment and contrib uted to the negotiation
("'""). Her play about Winston Churchill’s of the Downing Street Declaration and the
private meeting with Michael Collins in Good Friday Agreement (a collection of
%("%, Allegiance, was performed at Edin - his essays and addresses were published
burgh ("'%+). Her talks have included: in "''& as The Legacy of History for Making
Churchill and Ireland (Imp erial War Mus - Peace in Ireland). He was co-winner of the
eum, London); Ireland and the Abdication %(() Tipperary Peace Prize with Fr. Alec
of Edward VIII (Royal Dublin Society); Reid CSsR and Rev. Roy Magee. He has
What Yeats Means to Me (Nat ional Library been a columnist with the Sunday Business
of Ire land); Catholic Ire land’s relationship Post, The Irish Times, and The Irish Catholic.
to a Protest ant mon archy (Catholic Central He received honorary doctorates from the
Library, Dublin), and Heritage of Irish National University of Ireland and from
Feminism (Microsoft Ireland). Trinity College Dublin, and in "'%* he was
elected to mem bership of the Royal Irish
Academy, where he was a Council mem -
ber "'%(–"&. He was awarded a D. Phil
from Christ Church, Oxford.

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