The Sisters of the Holy Faith Congregational Archives are housed in the eighteenth-century portion of the main Holy Faith Convent in Glasnevin, Dublin. The Sisters of the Holy Faith is a Roman Catholic religious congregation that functions as a religious charitable organisation to benefit humankind...
The collections in this digital archive were curated by Helena La Pina (2020). The resource currently contains three digital collections: Annual Reports of the Ladies’ Association of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (1852-1862); Annual Reports of St. Brigid’s Orphanage (1857-1907); Publications of St. Brigid’s Orphanage...
Margaret Aylward, a Waterford native, founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Faith in Dublin in 1867, following many years of serving children in distress. This work was formalised in 1857 in St Brigid’s Orphanage – through a system of placing children with families in long-term fosterage...
