Track 1: Growing up in Moville, Co Donegal in the 1930s. She talks about her education and joining the Dominican Sisters. Track 2: Her first appointment to South Africa in 1959. Her journey to Cape Town. Teaching in a convent school for coloured pupils. Track 3: Troubled times during partheid. Teaching black students in townships. Track 4: How students’ attitudes changed after South Africa’s first mixed school was set up. Track 5: Was headmistress of a coloured school in Cape Town in a temporary capacity. The awareness of injustice there. The fall-off in vocations. Her return to Ireland in 2004.
Sr Bridget Gillen, OP
Sr Bridget Gillen, OP
€7.00 – €15.00
Additional information
| Type: | Disk, MP3 |
|---|---|
| Audio series: | IMU Missionary Stories Project |
| Bitrate: | 160 kbps |
| Download time limit: | 48 hours |
| File size(s): | 10.85 MB, 8.47 MB, 11.44 MB, 5.39 MB, 11.39 MB |
| Number of files: | 1 |
| Product ID: | CDIMU01-111 |
| Subject: | A Missionary in South Africa for 40 years |
| Recorded by: | Maurice O'Keeffe – Irish Life and Lore |
