Book Review: Mary Kenny pines for Catholic Ireland of bygone days

"...not all journalists, no matter how authoritative or respected, make reliable historians..."

Polling day in Ballymun for the first divorce referendum in 1986 in which almost two thirds voted no; although a second referendum in 1995 allowed for the dissolution of marriage under certain conditions. Mary Kenny devotes a lot of attention to the divorce, marriage equality, and abortion referendums, and the political machinations around them in ‘The Way We Were’.

• The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland Since 1922
• Mary Kenny
• Columba Books, €19.99