Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World
A Transnational History
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This book charts the history of how Irish-born 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.
Deirdre Raftery is Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests focus on the history of women and girls in the long nineteenth century, and the history of convent schools and convent education.
Winner of the Triennial Conference of the History of Women Religious Distinguished Book Award 2025
This book charts the history of how Irish-born 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.
Winner of the Triennial Conference of the History of Women Religious Distinguished Book Award 2025 Draws on the largest sample of congregational archives of women religious ever explored Utilises evidence from previously unexamined archival collections
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“Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World is a rich book, full of threads for historians of women religious to pull and trace. … It is an important book for scholars of the history of education and would be a useful addition to any graduate study of Irish women’s history and Catholic history, especially those who study the role that Catholic women religious played in the development of a specific country." (Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, History of Education, June 22, 2026)
“The breadth of the archival material consulted for this book is testimony to this: no fewer than twenty-five repositories are listed in the bibliography, located in Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy and the USA, as well as in Ireland. … Future scholars who wish to use these approaches will thank the author for laying such a sturdy foundation upon which to build their own research into women religious.” (Brian Heffernan, Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 105 (3-4), December, 2025)
“Raftery’s latest book, equally ground-breaking, is about the geographical and social mobility of up to 20,000 adventurous Irish women who journeyed over land and sea to set up or populate convents in North America, Australia and India from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. … This book wears its thorough research lightly — the appendices alone are a key database — and it reads like a story.” (Caitríona Clear, Irish Historical Studies, September 19, 2025)
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