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Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of St. Brigid’s Orphanage (1883). The report details the number of orphans; reunification of orphans with parents; orphan adoptions; orphan apprenticeships; the schooling of orphans; and the rearing of orphans. It notes…

Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of St. Brigid’s Orphanage (1882). It is submitted by the ‘Managers’ of St. Brigid’s Orphanage and Schools of the Holy Faith. It describes Proselytism and the activities of Protestant institutions (orphanages, schools, etc).…

Twenty-Third Annual Report of St. Brigid’s Orphanage (1879) (presented at Annual Meeting, 05 January 1880). It is submitted by the ‘Managers’ of St. Brigid’s Orphanage and Schools of the Holy Faith. The initiation of the boarding-out system (foster…