Memoirs of Joseph Prost, C.Ss.R.: A Redemptorist Missionary in Ireland 1851-1854 (Irish Narrative Series)

The recollections of Joseph Prost, an Austrian priest who initiated the Redemptorist parish missionary campaign in Ireland in 1851, provides a fascinating chronicle of the ' devotional revolution' by one of its most earnest organizers. He supplies a detailed account of the religious practices and social mores just after the Great Famine.