As early as 1863, Irish nuns were involved in training programmes for the Deaf.

According to her late hagiography, she was an Irish nun of the 5th or 6th century who founded a church in Cornwall.

As a provincial Irish nun, she knew her place.

'Yeah, from an old Irish nun, I heard that one,' he said.

Some of our testimony about the family comes from Irish Catholic nuns and priests stationed in this parish.

This was sometimes due to the English tongue being taught by Irish nuns.

The early Missionaries in collaboration with some Irish nuns established two major medical facilities.

"D'accord, mon ami, but never let the Irish nuns hear us."

The first Catholic school for Deaf children was established in 1875 by Irish nuns.

The foundation was so successful that, by the mid-1950s, all of the Irish nuns had been recalled to their original community.