ROOTS IN EXILE, fifty years as an Irish priest in Africa

242pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Retired Catholic priest Dick O'Riordan grew up in Ireland, studied at All Hallow's College in Dublin, and worked in mainly township parishes in southern Africa, especially Guguletu and Khayelitsha in Cape Town.

"He learns what it means to be a priest, while at the same time teaching us what means to be a human being." Derek Hanekom, former Minister of Tourism