- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: Appletree Press Ltd (1 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847580874
- ISBN-13: 978-1847580870
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 246,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Don't ever try to explain to anyone what it was like to be a monk," he said. "Not one person apart from us will ever be able to understand anything that you have to say about your experiences."
'Once a Brother' is the autobiography of a former Irish Christian Brother who spent eleven years training and teaching as a member of the Order at a time when they dominated the education scene in the cities and towns of Ireland.
Patrick Power joined the Irish Christian Brothers as a naive youngster of just fourteen and left at twenty-five. During these years he was not allowed home to see his family except for a brief visit of just six days after he had been a member for five years.
In the training houses he was not allowed to read newspapers, listen to the radio or go out alone. Behind these prohibitions he was indoctrinated as a member of the religious Order which played such a major part in the education of so many Irishmen. Eventually in the last three years of his time as a Brother he decides after much thought to leave. When he leaves he returns to a society that he does not know nor understand at the age of twenty-five.
This is one of the few voices that has emerged from the silence of former Christian Brother monks over their two hundred year history to retell a remarkable true story.
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