The Memoirs of Fr Pat Carroll O.P
The Memoirs of Fr Pat Carroll O.P Fr Pat Carroll was born in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick and joined the Dominican Order in 1945. He came to Tallaght in 1947 and was ordained a priest on the 13 th July 1952. “I was very delicate with illness when I was first born and nearly died because of it. I had forty-five visits from the doctor as an infant. My father would catch my little finger and say to my mother 'That child is not dying. Feel the grip of that little hand!’ My mother's name I can no longer remember, but she worked for the Munster Institute and became the poultry and dairy instructress for the county of Kilkenny. There she met my father who was seventeen years older than her, while he was working in the bank there. The banks shifted them around a fair bit in those days. I was only a few months born when we moved to Claremorris for three years before moving to Cashel for a year and then to Dunmore, Co. Galway. We spent ten years there- most of my chi