In Riverside, she was a nobody. In Ireland, her affair with a bishop rocked the Catholic Church

"In terms of the shock it had on the Irish psyche, it was almost like the JFK assassination," said John Cunningham, a history professor at the University of Galway.

"What stunned me was the realization that he had done this before," she wrote in her memoir about her first kiss with the bishop.

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