As a new television series on “radical” Irish missionaries reminds us, Irish clergy once played an important role at the forefront of an international social justice movement. “It was invigorating, it was exciting. You felt so proud to be part of this church,” Sr Áine Garvey, a former outreach worker in Brazil, says in Misineírí Radacacha. 

The four-part series starting next Monday on TG4 recalls the influence of liberation theology, and how many idealistic young Irish men and women became disheartened by the direction the Catholic Church took.

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