The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand, 1807-1922 / Ann Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Ann (Catherine Ann), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuns as teachers--Ireland--History--19th century.

Nuns as teachers.

Nuns as teachers--United States--History--19th century.

Nuns as teachers--Australia--History--19th century.

Nuns as teachers--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Nuns--Ireland--History--19th century.

Nuns.

Nuns--United States--History--19th century.

Nuns--Australia--History--19th century.

Nuns--New Zealand--History--19th century.

Nuns as teachers--Ireland--History.

Nuns as teachers--United States--History.

Nuns as teachers--Australia--History.

Nuns as teachers--New Zealand--History.

Nuns--United States--History.

Nuns--Australia--History.

Nuns--New Zealand--History.

Brigidine Sisters--History.

Brigidine Sisters.

History.

New Zealand.

Australia.

United States.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

462 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland ; Chicago, IL : Four Courts Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 Bishop Daniel Delany, founder of the Sisters of St Brigid, 1747-1814 p. 25

2 Catechetical worries, founding a sisterhood, 'charity' girls, 1777-1848 p. 51

3 The growth of Tullow and Mountrath schools, 1816-70 p. 93

4 Irish expansion and its limits, 1807-1922 p. 113

5 The Brigidine American foundations, 1851-69 p. 156

6 Australia: New South Wales - call and response, 1883-1922 p. 183

7 Australia: Victoria - 'free secular education, a bribe to the poor', 1886-1922 p. 246

8 New Zealand: Wairarapa - distance no deterrent, 1899-1922 p. 295

9 The religious formation of choir and lay sisters, 1807-1922 p. 319

10 The achievement of Roman approval p. 352.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Trinity College Dublin, 2013.

Includes Prosopography, 1807-1922 (pages 373-415).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-435) and index.

ISBN:

9781846827396

1846827396

OCLC:

1028816780

Publisher Number:

99979955462