Life
1728-1784 [Honoria Nagle; var. Honora DNB]; b. Balgriffin, nr. Mallow,
Co. Cork; ed. privately and in Paris; opened charity school for Catholics contrary to Penal
Laws, Cove Lane, using her own inheritance
to supply a school for the poor of Cork, 1754 [1757], and later gave it into the care of the Ursuline nuns whom she introduced to Ireland to aid teaching work, 1771;
est. Order of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1775; convent
built in Cork, 1777; d. 20 April; community received approval of Pius
VI, 1791; there is a portrait by Charles Turner (1809). DIB DNB
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Works
J. Walsh, Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters (1959). NOTE
also poem by Gerald Griffin dedicated to her (Poems, Centenary
Edn. 1940).
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Notes
Portrait: An engraving by Charles Turner, 1809, of Nano Nagle,
the foundress and educational pioneer, appears in Brian de Breffny, ed.,
Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson
1982), p.81.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)