Constance Kell: A Secret Well Kept [2017] hardback IHIST but a slick

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a staunch Catholic from Galway who served the British Crown and its Empire for almost fifty years

it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British

As documented in this inspirational book

and culminates in Ireland's 2015 same-sex marriage referendum

Constance Kell: A Secret Well Kept [2017] hardback IHIST but a slickThe United Kingdom's domestic counter intelligence and security agency, most commonly known as MI5, was founded in 1909 by Sir Vernon Kell KBE. Kell ('K' within the agency) not only founded MI5 but was also its Director for 31 years, the longest tenure of any head of a British government department during the twentieth century. Kell was also fluent in six foreign languages, making him arguably the most gifted linguist ever to head a Western