Forbidden fruit : the true story of my secret love affair with Ireland's most powerful bishop

Reveals the true story behind Annie Murphy's secret affair with Eamonn Casey, who became the Bishop of Galway, Ireland, the birth of their son, her years of hardship, and the publicity surrounding the 1992 disclosure of the coverup. After eighteen years of secrecy, culminating in one of the greatest scandals ever to befall the Catholic Church, here at last is the true - and the only authorized - account of Annie Murphy and her love affair with Eamonn Casey, Bishop of Galway, Ireland. Romantic, spellbinding, and often shocking, the haunting passion of this profound love story is quite simply unforgettable and rivals any in recent fiction. Annie Murphy came to Ireland from the United States in 1973. After the breakup of a turbulent marriage. She made the trip hoping to find spiritual peace under the guidance of a distant cousin, Eamonn Casey, then Bishop of Kerry. Instead, she found a charming, dynamic man - and the attraction was immediate and mutual. Within weeks the two were lovers, caught up in a whirlwind romance at Casey's hilltop retreat on the Atlantic coast. Fifteen months after Annie's arrival, she and Eamonn became parents. But sadly for Annie, the love