Nano Nagle: The Life and the LegacyThe first biographical study of Nano Nagle, the foundress of he Presentation order of nuns, that positions her within Irish social history, and assesses her vast international legacy. Nano Nagle: The Life and the Education Legacy draws on archival materials from three continents, providing a compelling account of how one woman's extraordinary life challenged social constraints and championed social justice and equality. Leading education historian, Deirdre Raftery, has produced not only a vital new biographical study of an exceptional Irish woman, but also a study of how thousands of Irish women joined the Presentation order of nuns and taught in their schools all over the world. Within that is the story of the Irish female diaspora in Newfoundland, India, North America, England, Australia, Africa and the Philippines. Nano Nagle: The Life and the Education Legacy throws opens a new window on an unknown aspect of Irish social history, while also demonstrating Ireland's significant contribution to the global history of female education. |
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... Nano's legacy as something that can be mapped as a linear sequence of events. However, we recognise that a thematic study presents readers with occasional repetitions, as we move back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth ...
... Nano's decisions'.13 However, although Nagle was dead ten years when Coppinger penned the eulogy, she was 'within living memory', and the events of her life contained in his panegyric attained the status of fact in subsequent ...
... Nano Nagle from 'a dear old Sister Agatha, quite blind, who ceaselessly told the story of Nano's halcyon days in Paris'.18 Walsh was a worthy successor to O'Rahilly in many respects. His study of Nagle drew on extant manuscript material ...
... Nano's Legacy For the purpose of this book, it was decided to focus on the most obvious – yet surprisingly uncharted – element of her legacy: the schools which she founded in her lifetime in Cork, and the network of foundations around ...
... Nano was born was the source of her strong Catholic Irish identity, and her financial acumen. Research on Nano's Norman ancestors shows how the name 'Nagle' had numerous iterations including de Nongle, de Nangle, and de Angulo. It was a ...
Contents
Pupils and Pedagogy in the Nineteenth Century | |
Presentation Education Before and After the Great | |
The Presentation Sisters and Education in England | |
The Presentation Sisters and SecondLevel Education in Ireland 18001958 | |
Expansion in Britain | |
The Global Reach of Presentation Education | |
Endnotes | |
Select Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy Deirdre Raftery,Catriona Delaney,Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck No preview available - 2018 |