Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World: A Transnational History

Winner of the Triennial Conference of the History of Women Religious Distinguished Book Award 2025

This book charts the history of how Irish-born nuns became involved in education in the Anglophone world. It presents a heretofore undocumented study of how these women left Ireland to establish convent schools and colleges for women around the globe. It challenges the dominant narrative that suggests that Irish teaching Sisters, also commonly called nuns, were part of the colonial project, and...