Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World: A Transnational History (Global Histories of Education)

by: Deirdre Raftery (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 9 Jan. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 244 pages

ISBN-10: 3031462009

ISBN-13: 9783031462009

Book Description

This book charts the history of how Irish-bo nuns became involved in education in the Anglophone world. It presents a heretofore undocumented study of how these women left Ireland to establish convent schools and colleges for women around the globe. It challenges the dominant narrative that suggests that Irish teaching Sisters, also commonly called nuns, were part of the colonial project, and shows how they developed their own powerful transnational networks. Though they played a role in the education of the ‘daughters of the Empire’, they retained strong bonds with Ireland, reproducing their own Irish education in many parts of the Anglophone world.