Sister Sister
This old radio documentary is something I cobbled together for a college project.
It's an interview with my dad's aunt Peggy (Sister Paula Doolin), a Loreto sister who spent 43 years in Kenya with the order as a pioneering educator. Our family history on the Doolin side is steeped in public service, and Peggy was always exemplary of that.
Peggy. with a portrait of her father, Dr. William Doolin.
She was an eternal pragmatist, and when she retired back to Dublin in the late 90s, I would meet her frequently, and she’d assuage my Catholic guilt with discussion of ethics and morals from the coal face of where dogma met work on the ground. She crossed paths with Mother Teresa and taught a child, Wangari Maathai, who ended up winning a Nobel peace prize. Not a bad lifetime's work.
She is a big reason why I was always so obsessed with understanding African history, and her epic solo travels certainly inspired mine.
