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God's entrepreneurs : how Irish missionaries tried to change the world / Joe Humphreys with additional reporting by Ruadhán MacCormaic, Sarah MacDonald and Brian O'Connell.
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TextPublisher: Dublin : New Island, 2010Description: xviii, 237, [8] pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), portraits ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848400764 (paperback) :
- 1848400764 (paperback) :
- 266 HUM 22
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 266 HUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100685933 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Who are the Irish missionaries and what has been their motivation to serve in other areas of the world? Is it for glory, adventure, and/or escape? And what were their achievements? Author Joe Humphreys - a journalist for The Irish Times - visited missionaries' places of service across the globe, seeking to find what motivated them in the past, and what continues to motivate the modern missionary. Along the way, Humphreys meets the women who defied a Catholic Church ban on practicing medicine, the 'turbulent' priests who challenged despots and dictators (and sometimes won), and the aid workers who today fight against such global problems as religious extremism and HIV/AIDS.