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Handwritten diary

Original Hokitika diary.pdf

The diary was written by Sr Clare Molony, one of the Mercy Sisters from the Ennis community who went on mission to Hokitika, New Zealand, in 1858. …

House of Mercy, Baggot Street

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Catherine McAuley founded the first House of Mercy in Dublin's Baggot Street in 1827, in order to provide education and care to the poor of Dublin,…

Convent School in Ennis, 1855

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In 1854 four Sisters came from Limerick convent to set up a new foundation in Ennis, County Clare. Many young women joined the new foundation, and the…