Clare Edwards

Recording No: 144

Theme: Social History and Community

Interviewee: Clare Edwards
Date of Birth: 1944
Interview location: Tralee, Co. Kerry
Recorded by: Maurice O’Keeffe – Irish Life and Lore
Series Title: 1922-2022: A Century of Change (part 2)
Date Recorded: 27/01/2020
Recording Length: 49:34 mins

Keywords: Trained in physiotherapy in the UK; Joined Franciscan Missionaries; St. Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, Co. Kerry; Leaving the convent; Set up centres for children with physical and intellectual disabilities; Founded Christy Brown Centre, Tralee; Missionary in Tanzania and founding the Faraja Pallotti Centre in Esso Arusha (2010 to currently).