Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rathfarnham Abbey
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1814: With encouragement from the Archbishop of...
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1814
With encouragement from the Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Ball
returned to the Bar Convent
at York (where she had been a pupil) as a novice, with the purpose of qualifying herself to improve the...
1823: A dayschool admitting poor Catholic children...
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1823
A dayschool admitting poor Catholic children was opened at Rathfarnham Abbey
in Dublin (a novelty in Ireland).
Atkinson, Norman. Irish Education: A History of Educational Institutions. Allen Figgis, 1969.
