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Author Prior, Tom, 1927-

Title A knockabout priest : the story of Father John Brosnan / Tom Prior
Published North Melbourne : Hargreeen, 1985

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 W'PONDS  282.0924 Bro.p  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 170 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Prologue: a hanging -- An Irish-Australian childhood -- Suffer little children... -- In the parishes -- A prison education -- A hundred percent religious man -- Madness, perversion, despair -- Inside Pentridge -- Of good and evil -- Sir John, Jogger and Tony Barber -- Ned Kelly and other Australians -- Nuns, priests, punters -- The Ronald Ryan story -- Postscript / by Father Brosnan
Analysis Brosnan, John, 1919-
Catholic Church - Australia - Clergy - Biography
Prison chaplains - Australia - Biography
Notes Available from The Manager, Kingfisher Books, Cnr. Brixton and Wangara Roads, Cheltenham, Vic. 3192
Subject Brosnan, John Gerard, 1919-
Brosnan, John, 1919-
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography.
31290034156323Catholic Church -- Australia -- Clergy -- Biography
Catholic Church -- Australia -- Clergy -- Biography
Prison chaplains -- Victoria -- Biography
Prison chaplains -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
Prison chaplains -- Australia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 86151064
ISBN 0949905232 (paperback)
0949905240