A road less travelled : tales of the Irish missionaries / Aidan Clerkin & Brendan Clerkin, editors ; with a foreword by Mary McAleese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clerkin, Aidan.

Clerkin, Brendan.

McAleese, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionaries--Ireland--Biography.

Missionaries.

Ireland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Open Air, 2011.

Summary:

This engaging volume offers personal accounts of Irish missionary work in many parts of Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, this volume. Most of the accounts take place in Kenya, although attention is also paid to actions in several other parts of Africa, such as the presence of volunteers during the Rwandan massacres. Aidan Clerkin and Brendan Clerkin work respectively as an educational researcher at St. Patrick's College and as a financial controller at a university in Uganda. No index is provided, but the book does close with statistics on the number of Irish Catholic missionaries per country and a list of organizations included in the survey of the Irish Missionary Union. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ISBN:

9781846823176

184682317X

OCLC:

757044650