Twenty-Third Annual Report of St. Brigid's Orphanage (1879)

Twenty-Third Annual Report of St. Brigid's Orphanage (1879)

1880-01

Sisters of the Holy Faith; St. Brigid's Orphanage

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 care) is described, with an anecdote on the influence of Rev Canon Mc Cabe on nurses (foster parents) from the country. 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. The boarding-out (foster care) system and premiums paid to nurses (foster parents) is discussed. Protocols for religious instruction and education in general is detailed. It notes the depression associated with the Famine of 1879. It examines the operations of Proselytism in the past; and a reminder of the previous famine and the opinion that proselytisers offered food to poor Catholics to secure a conversion. The report notes the assistance of a guild of ladies in its early years: ‘the orphanage received great help from a guild of ladies, but deaths, vocations to religions and other causes have deprived us of their cooperation'. It asks for the regeneration of this guild. The report discusses the work of the Holy Faith schools for poor Catholic children. It notes that the schools were established as auxiliaries to the orphanage ‘to receive Children of the poor, who had been tempted to go to Protestant and Proselytising day Schools’. The report discusses the benefits of a Catholic education and the drawbacks of secular education. A list of benefactors and donations to St. Brigid’s Orphanage and Holy Faith Schools is listed (including clergymen and guild associations). In the appendix is a letter of solicitation for support, donations, and subscriptions. Also, in the appendix is a description of assistance of the Sisters of the Holy Faith to the Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen Of Charity, in Lower 65 Lower Jervis Street; and an extract of a pamphlet published by his Lordship the Bishop of Southwark and kindly presented to St. Brigid’s Orphanage, titled ‘Practical Direction and Suggestions as to Appointed Testamentary Guardian.’

St. Brigid's Orphanage

46 Eccles Street, Dublin, Ireland

Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

Orphan statistics

Boarding-out system

Nurses (foster parents)

Education

Holy Faith schools

Sisters of the Holy Faith

Proselytism

Finance

Benefactors

McCabe, Edward (1816-1885)

Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Charity

Aylward, Margaret (1810-1889)

St. Brigid’s Orphanage Annual Reports 1880-1891 (HFA1-O-ES-F-33-SBO-AR-1880-1891)

William Powell (10 Essex Bridge, Dublin)

HFA1-O-ES-F-33-SBO-AR23.pdf

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eng

HFA1/O/ES/F/33/SBO-AR23

Sisters of the Holy Faith Congregational Archives, Aylward House, Holy Faith Convent, Glasnevin, Dublin 11

1 report, 31 pages