Track 1: Growing up in near Bantry, West Cork in the 1930s and 1940s, his vocation, joining the Order and his time in the seminary. Track 2: He went to Nigeria in 1961 to Lagos, and while doing his pastoral work he was a school chaplain. He discusses the catastrophes during the Civil War. He returned home in 1969 and took up a post teaching in a school in Ballyinafad, Co Mayo. He describes in detail the closure of the school and its amalgamation with one run by the St Louis Sisters. Track 3: He went to Zambia in 1975 and worked in Ndola, a mining township for 20 years. He returned home in 2001 and was elected to the Leadership Team. He left the Leadership Team in 20.
Fr John Horgan, SMA
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Fr John Horgan, SMA
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Type: | MP3 |
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Audio series: | IMU Missionary Stories Project |
Bitrate: | 160 kbps |
Download time limit: | 48 hours |
File size(s): | 18.76 MB, 21.72 MB, 23.28 MB |
Number of files: | 1 |
Product ID: | CDIMU01-022 |
Subject: | A Missionary in Nigeria and Zambia |
Recorded by: | Maurice O'Keeffe – Irish Life and Lore |