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"For a splendid cause": Irish missionary nuns at home and on the mission field, 1921-1962 by Lynch, Kate

“…In their encounters with local people, the sisters perpetuated a form of colonialism that will be studied as a seeming contradiction to the Catholic Church's stance against British rule in Ireland. This is conducted through the lens of gender, and exposes the variation in Catholic-informed ideals of femininity in this postcolonial period of Ireland's history. …”
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