This is Your Life. O’Flaherty hid thousands of people in a various farms, church-houses and homes around Italy, risking his own life in the process. The O'Flaherty Family . Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was an Irish priest who is credited with saving more than 6,000 lives after he helped Jews and Allied soldiers hide from the Nazis during World War II. Gallery . His escape organisation for Allied POWs, civilians and Jews was dangerous work for someone who was safe only within the Vatican.

Sam Derry - Right hand man to the Monsignor . The family lived on the golf course where James O'Flaherty worked as a steward. While a national audience watched, old colleagues and former POWs came forward and spoke about the occupation of Rome and the escape organization to which most of them owed their lives.
Founder of the Rome Escape Line. This Is Your Life; Testimonials; Gallery; ELMS; Links; Committee; Sponsors; Sitemap; Brian Fleming; Competitions; Literary Winners 2013; Rome Trip; Home » Biography » Gallery. At the end, a surprise guest was announced, and Hugh O’Flaherty walked falteringly from the wings to embrace … Tireless defender of the weak and oppressed. Shortly after Hugh O'Flaherty's birth in Lisrobin, Kiskeam, County Cork, his parents, James and Margaret, moved to Killarney. Sketch of the Monsignor when he was in Rome during the 1940's.

Early life. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. O’Flaherty’s Vatican plaque reads: “Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, born in Ireland 28.2.1898. … Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty . The famous 'This is Life' BBC program in 1963 to honour the fabulous work by the Monsignor and his Rome organisation. In February 1963, the British TV program This is Your Life featured Sam Derry in an episode. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty was an Irish Oskar Schindler who saved over 6,500 lives during the German occupation of Rome in the Second World War. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. Links; Committee; Sponsors; … By his late teens, young O'Flaherty had a scratch handicap and a scholarship to a teacher training college.. The O'Flaherty Family. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty 'The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican' Hugh O'Flaherty with Bill Simpson.

Sam Derry. Pictured at the Vatican. His network of contacts and helpers included religious, communists, British soldiers and singer Delia Murphy.