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Born: Kununoppin, Western Australia.
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGdU3fC0SPA' Life of sister Irene -
- Joined Sisters of Saint Joseph at the age of 17 and also started teaching.
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Started to gain fame from her skills in tennis, golf and dancing.
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Retired from teaching and became a Peruvian missionary worker.
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Helped the children with library facilities, homework and education better than ever before.
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left her serve in Huasahuasi because her and her companion (Sr. Dorothy Stevenson) were asked to help in emergency goods in caritas, Peru.
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Sister Irene and the catholic priest of Huasahuasi were warned of danger from Sendero Luminoso and the communist party.
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Priests had fled but Sister Irene and Sister Dorothy Stevenson were still serving the scared and hungry poor. A few months later Sister. Dorothy had also left apologising to Sister. Irene.
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It had now been 12 months without a president or priest in the town except for Sister. Irene.
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Sister Irene McCormack was invaded and kidnapped, later shot by armed communists along with other victims of the village and a few remaining priest who hadn’t fled earlier.
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swmggMjmy9Y' Students talking about how they have followed her footsteps