Edmund Rice, the man and his times

the long version

Describes the life and the achievements of the founder of two religious congregations, the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. The story of his life reveals the extraordinary qualities of the man and the misery prevalent in the Ireland of his time. He emerges from this biography as one of the most forceful Irishmen of his own or any other generation. The religious Brothers that he founded not only influenced Ireland profoundly: they grew into a world-wide force in Catholic education.