Secret Love: My Life with Father Michael Cleary

To the outside world, Father Cleary was a charismatic cleric, staunchly devoted to the Catholic Church and its doctrines, and remembered as the warm-up man before Pope John Paul's historic mass before one million young Irish people in 1979. But behind the closed doors of the presbytery he lived a dangerous double life - as a father, lover and husband. For almost three decades he shared his life with Phyllis Hamilton. On the surface, his dedicated housekeeper, she was the mother of his two sons - one of whom was put up for adoption - and his constant companion and lover for 27 years. This book recounts the story of Phyllis Hamilton's secret life, revealed by her in June 1995.