Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland's Opus Dei
Anne Marie Allen
Jun 2025 · Gill & Macmillan Ltd
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Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm and peaceful countryside of the west of Ireland. However, her happiness was short-lived as it became clear she had been tricked instead into a life of domestic servitude to the members of the Opus Dei cult. She was then whisked away to Rome where she signed her life away with vows to serve. What followed were years of misery in slavery, forced celibacy and traumatic physical suffering under an ambitious and tyrannical institution that demanded perfection, humiliation and pain. Eventually her family managed to coerce a visit home where they refused to let her return to the Order, and where they began the long process of deprogramming Anne Marie – a task that has been a life-long struggle. Serve is a truly remarkable story of strength and resilience in the face of religious zealotry.
Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm and peaceful countryside of the west of Ireland. However, her happiness was short-lived as it be...
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Anne Marie Allen spent more than six years within the Opus Dei cult in Ireland. She is an executive coach with a career in senior management within the Irish Prison Service and community bodies. She has vast experience in training development across the public sector and charitable organisations. A passionate advocate for human rights, women’s rights and political engagement, she has dedicated years to voluntary work supporting community groups, women’s initiatives and children’s charities. Widely travelled and committed to lifelong learning, she lives in Laois with her family.
Anne Marie Allen spent more than six years within the Opus Dei cult in Ireland. She is an executive coach with a career in senior management within the Irish Prison Service and community bodies. She has vast experience in training development across the public sector and charitable organisations....
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