Maureen Fitzgerald – författare

The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. 

Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns'' activism as resistance to Protestantism''s cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns'' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.

The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor-especially poor women-resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns' activism as resistance to Protestantism's cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.

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Not all revolutions take place through violent means; fueling our most personal, intimate rebellions is what ascends us to victory against the destructive myths we worship... There are certain messages that women receive from the world with a promise that life will be fair; that the pursuit of goodness will render a life free of pain and heartache. When Maureen Fitzgerald first learned that her husband of three months was addicted to meth, her notions of being a “good girl” crumbled when love and goodness could not save him from addiction. After a year of drowning in his addiction and narcissism, Maureen’s obliterated marriage left her with a broken spirit and disillusionment for life and humanity. In this darkness, she sought to find her truest purpose and meaning by sewing together memories, conversations, journal entries, and poems. Through this excavation of her past, Maureen collected soundbites to make sense of her last 30 years as a woman, her marriage, her pain, the pandemic, and a country in shambles. Left with the shrapnel of a shattered spirit, Maureen could not avoid the simple truth that the only way to make it out the other side of her suffering was to step fully into her own rebellion and turn it into a revolution.