Ambrogio Lorenzetti, A Group of Poor Clares (c.1336-1340) © The National Gallery
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CFP: History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland Annual Conference

The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland network is a lively community of scholars that includes academics, archivists, students and others interested in the history of women religious from medieval to modern times. The network hosts an annual conference which in 2018 will return to Galway for a second time where it will be […]

Sr Bridget Kirwan's inscription (in religion Sr Bridget of St Antoninus)
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Inscriptions in the Galway Dominican convent library collection

In an earlier blog I discussed three seventeenth-century books from the Galway Dominican convent library collection which has recently been acquired by the James Hardiman Library. A substantial acquisition, consisting of over 150 books and volumes in a variety of languages spanning the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the collection is currently being catalogued […]

2. Claudius Arnaud; Bartolommeo Gavantis, Thesauri sacrorum rituum Epitome, Selecta Quaeque notatu dignissima, ex intimis Rubricarum… Parisiis, Apud I. Iombert, 1685; 3. Antoninus Cloche O.P., [Master General], Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae Iuxta ritum Ord[inis] Praedicat[orum]… Romae: Typis Nicolai Angeli Tinassij; Impressoris Cameralis, & Vaticani, 1693
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Three seventeenth-century books from the Galway Dominican convent library collection

The library belonging to the Dominican convent at Taylor’s Hill in Galway was recently acquired by the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway. A substantial acquisition, consisting of over 150 books and volumes dating from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the collection offers a valuable insight into the spiritual and intellectual world […]

Licence to found a Poor Clare convent in Galway, 30 Janurary 1642/3. By permission of the Poor Clare community, Nuns’ Island, Galway.
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The Galway Poor Clares

Last month, the Poor Clare community in Galway celebrated its 375th anniversary. As the longest surviving community of women religious in Ireland, the Galway Poor Clare convent holds an important position in the history of Irish monastic foundations. An enclosed contemplative order, the Galway Poor Clares trace their presence in Ireland as far back as […]

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Suppression, Migration and Exile: Towards a History of Early Modern Irish Women Religious

Integral to the Henrician religious reform programme in Ireland, as in England, was the dissolution of religious houses. In Ireland, the majority of monasteries and convents within the orbit of English government influence were suppressed during the late 1530s and early 1540s and their properties secularised. A systematic visitation of religious houses resulted in the […]