Sister Genevieve was headmistress of a large Catholic girls comprehensive in a Republican stronghold on the Falls, in Belfast, from the 1960s to the 1980s. This book is both an inspiring portrait of a school, and how a teacher can take children from a deprived background and give them new horizons and opportunities, and a poignant look at the human dimension to the 'Troubles'. Some of her girls make it to Cambridge University in spite of tremendous obstacles, others join the IRA. Bombs are part of routine school life and Sister Genevieve has to steer a careful course between educating the girls and keeping in with their parents, many of them members of Sinn Fein. John Rae's marvellous biography tells the unusual and powerful story of a remarkable woman.
- ISBN10 0751532134
- ISBN13 9780751532135
- Publish Date 7 March 2002 (first published 5 April 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English