Sr Bridget Gillen, OP

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.