Person of Interest Podcast: Boys Town founder Fr Edward Flanagan

 

When Edward Flanagan was born in 1886 in Leabeg Co Roscommon — the eighth of eleven children — his parents John and Honoria would have had no idea that their new son would become known worldwide. But that's just what happened after his work as a priest with young troubled boys became an Oscar-winning movie, Boys Town, in 1938. Produced by Brian Byrne.

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