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This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways.0McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation, covering both those accommodated in English and European continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents and the Irish foundations abroad.0Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.

Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Nuns --- History --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- Church history --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Women in Christianity --- Convents --- Sisterhoods --- Catholic Church --- Christian religious orders --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699