Concannon, Mrs. Thomas. The Poor Clares in Ireland. (A.D. 1629-1929). Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1929. 19cm x 12.5cm. xxxv, 181 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition in good dust jacket. Ruubed and bumped. Dust jacket with paper losses to top of spine. Now inside archival jacket.

Includes for Example: The Annalists of the Poor Clares/ A Galway Poor Clare/ Her Exile in Spain/ Her Irish Writings/ Father Joannes a San Antonio’s List/ Evidence in proof of Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne- Seventeenth Century Galway/ Galway During the Confederation of Kilkenny/ Sister Mary Josephina White/ Help given her by Edward O’Reilly, the Irish Scholar and Lexicographer/ Researches of the Very Rev. Brendan Jennings, O.F.M./ Annals of the Poor Clares, Newry, Keady and Kenmare/ Narratives of Foundations of Poor Clares Colettines in Graigue-Cullen and Cork/ Irish Nuns in Penal Days/ The Five Foundresses/ The House at Dunkirk/ Monastery of the English Poor Clares at Gravelines/ Work of Mary Ward/ Austerity of the Rule Followed/ Sickness and Death/ Location of first Monastery of the Poor Clares in Dublin?/ Raids on Mass Houses/ Demolition of the Religious Houses ordered by the English Privy Council/ Respite for the Poor Clares/ Poor Clares arrested and brought before the Council/ Lord Cork’s Account/ Fidelity of the Novices/ A Monastery built for them on the Dillon Estate near Athlone/ Postulants flock to “Bethlehem”/ Sister Catherine Francis Browne/ Sister Mary Gabriel Martyn/ Sisters Catherine Bernard and Mary Bonaventure Brown/ Lady Wentworth and the Duchess of Buckingham/ Brother Michael O’Clery/ Franciscan Tertiaries in Drogheda/ Lord Cork/ Outbreak of Civil War/ Foundation of House of Poor Clares in Galway/ Puritan “Black and Tans” sack and pillage the deserted convent/ Sisters find refuge in Wexford and Athlone/ Scarampi and Rinuccini/ Abbess Mary Gabriel Martyn/ Abbess Clare Anthony Kennedy/ Duald Mac Dirbisigh’s Work for her Community/ Sister Appolonia Connor/ Grant from Galway Corporation of Island Altanagh in the Corrib/ Abbess Catherine Bernard Browne/ The Cromwellian Conquest/ Galway the last Stronghold of the Irish/ Arrival of Envoys from the Duke of Lorraine/ The map of 1651/ Poor Clares forced to take ship for Spain with the departing ‘swordsmen’/ Help provided by King Philip IV/ Death of Mother Cicely Francis Dillon/ Death of Mother Margaret Evangelist Moore/ Sister Cicely Burke/ Sister Ellis Font/ The Convent in Market Street, Galway/ The Poor Clares in Dublin/ Mother Augustine Lynch/ Mrs. Kirwan and Mrs. Daly Arrested/ Judge Caulfiel/ Abbess French/ The celebrated Mrs. Delaney/ Rev. Dr. John Murphy/ Russell’s Court Community remove to Drumcondra Lane (now Dorset Street)/ How Irish Girls were educated during the Penal Days/ Hardwicke Street Chapel/ Mr. Denis O’Brien of Mountjoy Square and his family/ Miss Maria O’Brien’s interest in the Dorset Street Community/ Rev. Michael P. Kinsella, O.S.F.C./ Rev. Frances Lennan, P.P./ A walk with Mr. Corballis/ The Founding of the Harold’s Cross Orphanage/ Dorset Street/ The Poor Clares in Newry/ The Orphanage in North William Street/ First Convent North of the Boyne since the Reformation/ The Gilmer Bequest/ Modest financial provisions for foundation/ Sister Mary Patrick Rice, first Nun professed North of the Boyne since the ‘Reformation’/ The Convent stoned/ St. Clares, Newry/ The Miraculous Medal/ A Lending Library/ Work for the Poor/ The Christmas Crib/ Work for Catholic Literature/ Father Alexander Henry’s Gifts/ Free Breakfasts/ ‘A Treasure from Rome’/ Death of Abbess Mary Michael Treacy/ Abbess Mary Augustine Lanigan/ Abbess Mary Michael O’Hagan/ Abbess mary Stanislaus Fottress/ Abbess Mary Agnes O’Brien/ Most Rev. Dr. Browne of Kilmore asks for a Foundation at Cavan/ Foundresses of St. Joseph’s Abbey, Cavan/ Foundation of Poor Clares at Ballyjamesduff/ Most Rev. Dr. Moriarty of Kerry visits Saint Clares, Newry/ Very Rev. Dr. O’Sullivan’s ‘Dream Convent’/ How dreams sometimes come true/ The Foundresses of the Poor Clares, Kenmare/ Early days in ‘Rose Cottage’/ Strange experience of Miss Marianne MacGlone/ How the prophecy was fulfilled/ Early Days in Keady/ Foundation of Irish Poor Clares at Waverley, near Sydney, Australia/ A Branch House from Newry at Mayobridge/ The Poor Clares Colettines of Carlow Graigue/ Another seedling from St. Clare’s vineyard planted on Irish soil/ Mere Dominique Berlamont and her ‘Colettines’/ Mother Abbess Seraphine Bowe leads a colony from Levenshulme, Manchester, to found at Graigue-Cullen/ A knightly Irish lad/ Great-hearted generosity of the late Michael Governey and their gifts- new Convent built/ The Feast of St. Magdalene, 1900/ Perpetual Adoration established/ Foundation at Donnybrook/ St. Damien’s Donnybrook sends forth a colony to found at Belfast/ Behind the Grille/ The Poor Clares Colettines in Cork/ A true daughter of Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne/ What the Poor Clares have done for Ireland/ Walter Dwyer of Cork/ Arrival of Sisters from Graigue-Cullen/ The first Postulants sent by St. Brigid/ The Life of a Poor Clare Colettine/ A Poor Clare’s Garden/ Ireland ‘good soil for the Rule of Seraphic Poverty’/ The ‘Boys’ on hunger strike/ The Magnum Opus of the Nuns/ The Divine Office a part of the living life of the Sisters/ The Franciscan Spirit/ Ceremonies/ The ‘Clothing’ of a Poor Clare/ Her ‘Simple Profession’/ Her ‘Solemn Profession’/ Consecration of the Cemetery/ It first occupant ‘Rooted in the soil of Cork’ etc.

• Keywords: History & Culture · History of Ireland · Religion
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 41327AB

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