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- She felt her vocation was to offer poor Catholic children the chance to better their lives and engage in their religion through education. She made up her mind to leave the convent and return to Ireland to live with her brother Joseph and his wife Frances, who lived on Cove Street (now Douglas Street).
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Nano Nagle is believed to have attended a local hedge school, like her cousin Edmund Burke, before she travelled to France to complete her education. [6] The Education Act 1695 banned Catholic schoolteachers in Ireland, while also prohibiting overseas travel for Catholic education.
Nagle’s life work can be read as an acting out of that process, as she worked to embrace and educate the Catholic poor based on their shared religious loyalty. Around 1755 she started her first Catholic school in Cove lane in Cork, catering for thirty poor girls from the city. This was a brave, perhaps even a foolhardy, step.
Apr 8, 2021 · April 08, 2021 at 2:00am BST. NANO Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters, is one of the most widely-recognised names in the history of religion and education in Ireland. She was declared...
Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Sisters in Ireland, has been declared Venerable by Pope Francis. It means she has passed the second of four steps to canonisation.
The book was completed in 2018, the tercentenary of the birth of Nano Nagle. (1718–1784), the first woman to found a religious order in Ireland since St Brigid in the fth fi century. Nano was born into the Irish Catholic gentry. Penal Laws restricting the freedom of Catholics were in force throughout her life.
An innovative, tenacious pioneer, Nano Nagle transcended the narrowly prescribed boundaries of her time. By Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle Between the early 1750s and her death in 1784 Nano Nagle established schools in Cork to educate poor Catholic children, brought the Ursuline Sisters to Ireland and founded her own religious order, the ...
