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Nano Nagle and the Modernisation of Ireland
| Nano Nagle, 1718-1784, was the founder of the Presentation Order of Nuns in 1775. Her work influenced Edmund Rice, the founder of the Christian Brothers, and she was the first founder of an Irish native order of women religious. Educated in France by the Ursulines during the penal era in Ireland which prohibited catholic education until 1782, she challenged the legal system on her return. Nagle's work was focussed on the catholic poor, unlike most of her contemporary religious orders. Nagle forged a new image for women religious in Ireland. These women helped transform educational provision in nineteenth-century Ireland.
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