A master’s in Bengali, who spoke like a native, the last years of her life were spent in promoting Bengali and teaching Dalit ...

As early as 1833, the Presentation Sisters sent sisters to Newfoundland. They were followed there by the Sisters of Mercy. The 1840s saw Irish Loreto nuns go to India, Mauritius, Gibraltar and Canada.

An Irish nun who received India’s highest civil award, the Padma Shri, for her work in education, has passed away at the age of 86. Sister Cyril Mooney died Saturday, June 24, in Kolkata, India ...