Nuns had arrived to impoverished town after the Famine, setting up schools and establishing a lace-making industry
The TikTok nuns: ‘If we’re hidden, we’re going to die out’The nuns had arrived at the invitation of Archdeacon Fr John O’Sullivan to a town impoverished after the Famine. As well as their involvement in education, they established a lace-making industry to help lift Kenmare out of dire poverty. Two of the schools they founded – St John’s National School and Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine – still serve the young people of Kenmare.
One of their founding members, the famous “Nun of Kenmare”, Sr Mary Francis or Margaret Anna Cusack – who was born into a wealthy Protestant Anglo-Irish family – had taken on the local landlord over his treatment of his tenants.
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