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N N N NUNS AND N N N NOVICES

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    2 October 1926 was a S S S Saturday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    9 out of 32 are wearing spectacles (28.125 %).
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia I was using my own spectacles to zoom in on their faces too. It's so interesting that even in a habit that was supposed to quash individuality, some personalities could not be suppressed.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Sisters of Mercy
    “The sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone
    They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
    And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
    Oh, I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long”
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  • Niall McAuley said:
    The Sisters of Mercy were associated with St. Patrick's hospital in Waterford

The Industrial School at Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    One of the worst, evidently - "St Michael’s Industrial School Cappoquin, Co Waterford Opened:1877 Status:Closed 1999 Management:Sisters of Mercy THE STORY of St Michael’s Industrial School in Cappoquin is characterised by physical and sexual abuse, a dysfunctional managing nun with an alcohol problem and severe underfeeding in the early years. The Sisters of Mercy school opened in 1877 as a conventional industrial school but became a group home in 1974. The inquiry found that the children were “severely underfed for a long period in the 1940s and 1950s”. However, it was the era of the group home that gave rise to the most complaints. A nun with the pseudonym Sr Callida was put in charge of Group Home A in 1975 but staff became “increasingly alarmed” at how she ran the home. She had an alcohol problem, drank in front of the children and went absent for days without notice, leaving a young woman in charge of 16 young children. ... ... ..." From - www.irishtimes.com/news/most-complaints-concerned-physica...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    More here - im2.studioaad.webfactional.com/ryan-report/report/2-8?page=1
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "The State and society must never presume that because a child has been placed in care, he or she is safe from any form of abuse." From a personal story by Paddy Doyle, see - www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-was-abused-in-same-instit...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Your comments link to some grim reading.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, I am sorry about that; it actually put me off my dinner. Has anyone found where this was? Part of the Mt St Joseph Convent? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317440

August 10, 1902

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  • Tammy said:
    they all look so miserable, except the man in front with his dog!
  • enza bianchimani said:
    very interesting! 2 nuns in a family!!!
  • Swordscookie said:
    Given the sober look about them where is the need for the shotgun? A very posed photo but excellent condition and clarity given how old it is!
  • Jim Griffin said:
    Perhaps the man with the shotgun is the photographer's assistant?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I'm thinking the whole back row are their children, but the nuns look almost as old as the seated parents - maybe sisters or sisters-in-law?