| Description |
v, 385 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
"Born in Ireland in 1834, Patrick Ambrose Treacy spent his formative years in Thurles, Tipperary, at the Christian Brothers' school, later entering the Brothers' novitiate in Waterford. In August 1868 he departed Dublin, arriving in Melbourne, Australia, in November. Ambrose arrived when free, secular and compulsory education was being introduced. He accepted the challenge of providing a quality Catholic education and would continue to address it for the next 30 years. This involved providing teachers, raising finance and erecting buidlings without government assistance. This book covers his strategies for implementing his couragous ideas, including his fundraising journeys to goldfields in remote areas that are the stuff of legend, and details his relationships within the hierarchy of the church and the wider commnity. In 1900, Ambrose returned to Dublin as assistant to the superior general of the institute. A decade later, he returned to Australia, where he died on Wednesday 2 October 1912."--Dust jacket gate fold |
| Analysis |
Catholic Church - Education - Australia - History |
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Catholic schools - Australia - History |
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Catholic teachers - Australia - Biography |
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Catholics - Australia - Biography |
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Congregation of Christian Brothers - Clergy - Biography |
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Congregation of Christian Brothers - Education - Australia |
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Irish - Australia - Biography |
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Treacy, Patrick Ambrose, 1834-1912 |
| Notes |
Trustees of the Christian Brothers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index |
| Notes |
© Trustees of the Christian Brothers |
| Subject |
Treacy, Patrick Ambrose, 1834-1912.
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Catholic Church -- Education -- Australia -- History.
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Catholic Church -- Australia
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Congregation of Christian Brothers -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Congregation of Christian Brothers -- Clergy.
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Congregation of Christian Brothers -- Education -- Australia.
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Biography -- Australia.
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Catholic schools -- Australia -- History.
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Catholic teachers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Catholics -- Australia -- Biography.
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Education, Secondary -- Australia.
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Irish -- Australia -- Biography.
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Australia -- Church history -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Australia -- Church history -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2012515217 |
| ISBN |
9780702249426 (hbk.) |
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