A Meddling Priest: John Joseph Therry
$40.00
Author: McSweeney PE, John
Publisher: St Pauls
Place: Strathfield
Cover: softback with stiff wrappers
Condition: Nice copy
Category: Australiana
Year: 2000
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: xi + 178pp., colour plates, maps, bibliog., index, John Joseph Therry was born in Cork, Ireland in 1790. Ordained a priest in 1815, he was assigned to parish work in Dublin and then Cork. Therry sailed from Cork under a senior priest, Father Philip Conolly, in the Janus, which carried more than a hundred prisoners to Sydney, in May 1820. Therry described his life in Australia over the next forty-four years as “one of incessant labour very often accompanied by painful anxiety
