RTÉ I’s Nationwide programme yesterday evening featured a report on the work done in Rome during World War II by legendary Kerry priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who died 60 years ago on October 30, 1963.
Dominican priest, Paul Lawlor appeared on the programme. He spoke about how the Irish Dominicans at San Clemente accommodated a small number of people of the Jewish faith during the German occupation of the city in World War II.
Paul gave an excellent interview and it’s well worth watching. Paul hails from Tralee, County Kerry, and Hugh grew up in Killarney, having been born in Kiskeam which is close to the Kerry border.
The programme is available on the RTÉ Player, Wednesday, November 22, 7pm, RTÉ 1.
Dominican priest Raymond Dowdall, who lived in San Clemente during the war years, had close contacts with Hugh O'Flaherty but never spoke about the work he did with him.
During those years cattle were kept in the cortile of San Clemente.
Because of his work, a painting of Raymond Dowdall is on a wall of a cafe on the Via Condotti in Rome
Joe O'Connor in his book on Monsignor O’Flaherty, My Father’s House mentions the role the Irish Dominicans played in protecting Jews from the horrors of the Germans during the war.
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