Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World A Transnational History

“The breadth of the archival material consulted for this book is testimony to this: no fewer than twenty-five repositories are listed in the bibliography, located in Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy and the USA, as well as in Ireland. … Future scholars who wish to use these approaches will thank the author for laying such a sturdy foundation upon which to build their own research into women religious.” (Brian Heffernan, Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 105 (3-4), December, 2025) 

“Raftery’s latest book, equally ground-breaking, is about the geographical and social mobility of up to 20,000 adventurous Irish women who journeyed over land and sea to set up or populate convents in North America, Australia and India from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. … This book wears its thorough research lightly — the appendices alone are a key database — and it reads like a story.” (Caitríona Clear, Irish Historical Studies, September 19, 2025)