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This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.

In 1878 Lady Margaret Browne opened a school of Art for the benefit of poor children. Lady Kenmare examined the needlework of the girls and seventeen were chosen. Killarney’s Lace School became famous. This Art school developed into the Lace School which lasted until 1914. Then the Lace workers were asked to make shirts for the Troops. In later years the Sisters bought items which had lace trimmings and sold them to tourists who came to the convent.

Sub series consists of three bound volumes related to the Lady Margaret’s Work School, books concerning lace and artwork and samples of lace.

• Accounts book: Receipts and Expenditure of The Work School Presentation Convent Killarney. 1893 – 1905.
• Sums paid to the Children, lists of children’s names and page number in the front of the register, the following pages give details of the type of work done and the amount they earned, 1878 – 1880.
• Account book detailing expenditure of items purchased for the Lady Margaret’s Work School. 1878 – 1880.
• Samples of lace.

• Photocopy of History of Lace by Honiton.
• Headed paper, “Industrial Lace School Presentation Convent, Killarney”.
• Book, “Art and Ecclesiastical Embroidery”, Vol. 1V. No.1 March 1898.
• Book,” Needlework as Art by Lady M. Alford, 1886”, with an inscription from V Lady Kenmare, Xmas Day 1887.

Clipping of an article titled ‘Lady Stewart-Bam at Ards House’ published in 'The Gentlewoman' magazine. The article refers to the marriage of Captain Sir Pieter Canzius Van Bloommestein Bam and Ena Dingwall Tasca Stewart of Ards House, County Donegal, on 26 July 1910. The article also provides an account of the Stewart-Bam residence in Ards, County Donegal. With a photographic print of Lady Stewart-Bam and Ards House. The article reads:
'Lady Stewart-Bam, although the heiress to an Irish estate, was not born in Ireland: but here heart is often with her people there, and she loves nothing so much as to find herself surrounded by those who hail from the “distressful Isle”. She told the writer that when she settles down in her own home in London, she intends to have none but her “own people” about her as servants'.
The file includes a photostat copy of the article.