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"""This book is the story of an Irish success, but it is much more than that. It also encapsulates, in the story of Kylemore Abbey, a history of Connemara over some two centuries, an account of the development of Irish education since the days of the Free State, but more especially of the extraordinary acumen of a Catholic congregation in changing to cope with new times, and moreover to survive, to survive and to flourish in a different way than was originally envisaged when the community settled in Connemara a century ago."" -- Peter Costello * The Irish Catholic * This beautifully illustrated book is a well-deserved tribute to a group of extraordinary women who have been unwavering in their response to the call to prayer. -- John Scally * Doctrine & Life *"

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Deirdre Raftery is Professor of the History of Education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has thirteen book publications including (jointly) Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy (2018); Transnationalism, Gender and the History of Education (2017), and was recently awarded the CHWR Distinguished Historian Award, at Notre Dame. Her research specialism is the history of women religious (nuns). Catherine KilBride was Principal of Pembroke School (Miss Meredith’s), Education Director of the Marketing Institute, and lecturer in Education Management at University College Dublin. She is now an editor, translator and writer. This is her fourth book.

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