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In Retrospect: Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh

Patrick Comerford recalls an Irish Anglican priest who was an inspiring and persecuted campaigner against apartheid. The very Revd Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, born 100 years ago on 26 January 1912, was an Irish Anglican priest who attained international prominence in the 1970s for his uncompromising resistance to injustice and apartheid. Although he was Dean of Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Johannesburg, he found his office was no protection against the state security forces, or against solitary detention, trial and eventual deportation.

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Patrick Comerford

is priest-in-charge, Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin (Diocese of Limerick) Precentor of Limerick, and a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute and Trinity College Dublin.