Bronagh Ann McShane is Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Religion, Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

HONORABLE MENTION: A fascinating account of the experiences and journeys religious Irish women underwent, both in Ireland and continental Europe.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction1. Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns2. Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland3. 'What difficultie a place is heare gotten for won to enter': Irish women religious in France, and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century4. Irish nuns in Iberia: The Dominican convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, Lisbon5. Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-496. Cromwell and the cloister: female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-607. Restoration, revival and survival, 1660-1700 ConclusionBibliography

Bronagh Ann McShane is Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Religion, Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

HONORABLE MENTION: A fascinating account of the experiences and journeys religious Irish women underwent, both in Ireland and continental Europe.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction1. Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns2. Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland3. 'What difficultie a place is heare gotten for won to enter': Irish women religious in France, and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century4. Irish nuns in Iberia: The Dominican convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, Lisbon5. Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-496. Cromwell and the cloister: female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-607. Restoration, revival and survival, 1660-1700 ConclusionBibliography

Bronagh Ann McShane is Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Religion, Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

HONORABLE MENTION: A fascinating account of the experiences and journeys religious Irish women underwent, both in Ireland and continental Europe.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction1. Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns2. Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland3. 'What difficultie a place is heare gotten for won to enter': Irish women religious in France, and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century4. Irish nuns in Iberia: The Dominican convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, Lisbon5. Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-496. Cromwell and the cloister: female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-607. Restoration, revival and survival, 1660-1700 ConclusionBibliography