Scoil: Cill an Mhuilinn, Malla (uimhir rolla 15903)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Nagle Family (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

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   into the very best ranks of Parisian society.
   Returning from a ball one morning she saw a number of poor people waiting on the steps of a church for the first Mass. Contrasting her manner of living with theirs, and listening to the gentle voice of grace speaking within her, she yielded to its persuasive warnings, and resolved to bid farewell to the world and its vanities to devote the remainder of her life to the service of God.
   She returned to her peaceful home at Ballygriffin by the river Blackwater. She longed to teach and instruct the poor children of Ireland, who were oppressed and downtrodden by the cruel penal laws. But what was she - a young girl in her 22nd year - to do in the face of such tyranny? She stood alone, unable to do anything, as she thought, to alleviate the misery of her countrymen. She prayed and sought counsel, but was advised to silence her desires. She made up her mind as she could do nothing for Ireland to return to France. She said: "A convent there will receive me,

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Richard O Brien

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

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   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Baile Uí Ghrífín, Co. Chorcaí