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Sep 10, 2013 · Edward and Eliza Nangle and their three young daughters arrived in Achill on August 1st, 1834, landing at Dugort Strand where bonfire flames rose in welcome. Three years earlier, Edward had set...
- Graves Apart
- Tempestuous Years
- Protestant Evangelical Women
- Conditions For Native Achill Women
- Women Caught in Sectarian Crossfire
- Achill Famine
- ‘She Never Was A Woman of Many Words’
If you travel to Dugort on the northern coast of Achill Island as far as St Thomas’ Church and follow the signs for the Sean Reiligup on to the slopes of Slievemore Mountain, you will arrive at what survives of an old cemetery. In a place where you can look out on to the waters of Blacksod Bay, you will come upon two flat boulders on which the insc...
The Nangles and their three small daughters, together with Eliza’s younger sister Grace Warner, arrived in Achill in the summer of 1834. Edward had a vision – modelled in part on the Second Reformation efforts of Lord Farnham in Cavan with ‘moral agency’ and moral reformation at its core – to convert the poverty-stricken peasants of the island thro...
The women associated directly with the Achill Mission Colony – Eliza Nangle, her sister Grace Warner, Isabella Neason, and the Nangle daughters – exhibited characteristics of the nineteenth-century Protestant woman supporting and following a strong evangelical male figure. They were part of a development which saw women move out of the purely priva...
Achill in the mid-nineteenth century presented a remote, isolated, economically-deprived location. Since the Achill Sound bridge had not yet been built, travel to Newport and Westport was often undertaken by boat. Housing in Achill was categorised as ‘fourth-class’, a classification which indicated one of the main symbols of poverty in pre-famine I...
Given their subservient position, particularly in relation to literacy and linguistic skills, it is not surprising that women were caught up in the ecclesiastical crossfire between the male clerical protagonist led by Archbishop John MacHale, Edward Nangle and their clergies in Achill in the 1830s. A young island woman, Bridget Lavelle, became a se...
Eliza Nangle gave birth to two children during the famine years: a daughter, born in Achill on 10 March 1846, died at birth, as famine was taking a grip on the island. A son was still-born in December 1847 and Eliza’s health problems were by then acute. In Dugort, Eliza Nangle and her family witnessed the calamitous consequences of the famine in it...
After Eliza’s death in 1850, her husband’s obituary in The Achill Heraldgives us an insight, not just into Eliza’s character, but also into the prevalent views about the appropriate role of an evangelical woman of the period. Edward described his wife’s singular skills in account keeping, which saved the Mission the expense of paying for a book-kee...
Sep 18, 2018 · The local cemetery, at Sean Reilig, on the slopes of Slievemore, is also the final resting place for Nangle’s first wife, Eliza, and six of their children, victims of the Island’s harsh ...
Sep 9, 2013 · Today, the remains of Eliza Nangle and five of the Nangle offspring rest on the slopes of Slievemore just yards from the surviving Achill Mission settlement buildings. In the valley below stands St Thomas’ church where a portrait of the silver-haired Nangle looks down on Sunday worshippers and Achill Island visitors.
May 27, 2018 · The book also focuses on the hardships experienced by Nangle’s wife, Eliza Nangle. She was the mother of three small girls when she first arrived with her husband on Achill.
Jul 20, 2018 · Nangle’s Protestant colony would eventually grow to include well-constructed cottages, schools, an infirmary, and even an orphanage. It also became a tourist attraction for Protestant evangelicals and foreign journalists.
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He stated that ‘Edward Nangle, an Irish Protestant born in Meath in 1800, and Founder of the Achill Mission raised millions in donations, in today’s money, to build his Achill Colony in Dugort.’
