History
While there is some evidence to suggest that Dominican women
were already in Ireland in the 13th century,
our beginnings can only be
traced back with certainty to the city of Galway, in the west of Ireland, in
1644.
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In that year (1644) the first women gathered in Galway to live the Dominican way of life. Their life story is a chequered one, through repeated persecution and exile. For some years the group had to leave Galway and go into exile to find a safe haven in convents on mainland Europe. Eventually, in 1686, two sisters, Juliana Nolan and Mary Lynch returned to Galway. Others soon joined them. In 1718 they sent a small group to Dublin. A century later their followers leased a house in Cabra, on the outskirts of Dublin, a convent that was to become the mother-house to many groups of Dominican women around the world. |
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By the 1860's the community in Cabra was strong enough to send missionaries abroad.
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Groups of sisters sailed the long journey from Dublin to:
More recently, new missions have opened in
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