Fellows & Editors
Miranda Kennedy
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Ireland
- Year:
- 2015
- Find me on:
Miranda Kennedy, a 2009 IRP fellow to India, is writing a book about religious belief and how it is changing. She is the author of the 2011 reported memoir Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, which investigates women’s lives in India. She was an India-based reporter for NPR and Marketplace India for five years until 2007, covering war, conflict and economic change all across South Asia. She has worked as an editor at NPR in Washington, D.C. on and off since returning to the States. Kennedy has a MFA in nonfiction writing from Bennington College and teaches narrative nonfiction at the University of Maryland’s journalism school. She received her undergraduate degree from the Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
Stories
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Not All Irish Are Enjoying the Nation’s Economic Recovery
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Seven years after the global economic meltdown, there are countries that are still struggling to recover but not Ireland. Its economy is not just robust, it's the fastest-growing...
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After Scandals, Ireland Is No Longer ‘Most Catholic Country in the World’
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Pope Paul VI had a phrase for Ireland. Back in 1946, he called it the most Catholic country in the world. This is the story of how Ireland has become...
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As More Irish Turn Away From Catholicism, Parents Call for Non-Religious Schools
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In the U.S., parents who want to give their children a religious education have to pay for it for the most part. In Ireland, it's the opposite...
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