A history of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907

Abstract

The Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines) were founded in Tullow, County Carlow, by Dr Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1807. These nuns were part of the unusually fast expansion of simple-vowed congregations in nineteenth-century Ireland. This thesis through the use of standard archival and historical research methods has explored the congregation’s evolution and development in Ireland and Australasia. It has analysed the Brigidines from their foundation to provide free and fee-paying day and boarding schools and catechetical teaching in Sunday schools to its late achievement of definitive papal approbation in 1907.