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Mary Holland (journalist)

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It is a very serious weakness of your coverage of Irish affairs that you are a very poor judge of Irish Catholics. That gifted and talkative community includes some of the most expert conmen and conwomen in the world and I believe you have been
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for the promotion of peace and understanding in Ireland. She wrote and campaigned for abortion rights in Ireland and disclosed, in an article on the topic of abortion, that she had had one.
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Her awards included the Prix Italia award for her television documentary on the Creggan in Derry (Creggan, 1980) and, in 1989, the
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was appointed editor-in-chief of the paper. O'Brien was a writer and politician who served as a government minister in the
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and became an increasingly prominent commentator on the affairs of the region.
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at the inaugural Mary Holland Commemorative Lecture, 7 July 2005
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Mary Holland (disambiguation)
Irish
journalist
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Indonesia
The Observer
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Oireachtas
Irish republicanism
Liam Cosgrave
The Irish Times
Corporals killings
Ewart-Biggs memorial prize
scleroderma
Eamonn McCann
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN
978-0-297-85110-3
"Obituary: Mary Holland The Independent"
Guardian obituary
Address
Mary Robinson
Tributes to Mary Holland
Categories
1935 births
2004 deaths
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize recipients
The Irish Times people

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