Ep 17: The Most Powerful Women in Ireland: A history of The Nuns

A Woman's Place Ireland

In this week's episode we look at the history of religious orders in Ireland and how it came about that Religious Orders had so much power in Irish society.

We barely scratched the surface of this conversation but this is the first part of a series on the nuns in Ireland. We start off with Catholic Emancipation, through to De Valera and then onto the work in Reformation schools.

It gets a little choppy at the end because this conversation is so dense. We hope you get some new understanding about Religious Orders here in Ireland.

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Episode Breakdown:

3.00 The Reformation

3.30 We love mass

5.00 Gaffs for the nuns

8.30 Penny for the fancy churches

10.15 Nuns as teachers

11.00 Is there anything to be said for another nun

12.20 A better life

14.00 Changing Gods

16.00 They are so SMRT

17.00 OUT OUT YIZ HERETICS

18.20 Post War Ireland was no craic

19.30 All the lads out for a pray

22.00 What were the parties in Ireland

25.00 A new constitution

28.00 15,000 nuns

30.30 Who are the nuns

32.45 The first asylum

36.40 Irish Institutions were the gold standard

40.00 Why were children admitted

52.00 Containing the problem

60.00 Delivery Drivers

64.00 Who were the nuns (getting back on track)