Title
O'Donoghue, Sister Helena
Description
Bibliographic Dictionary Entry
Date
1940
Creator
O'Toole, Tina
Source
Munster Women Writers Project, University College Cork
Publisher
Women in Irish Society Project, University College Cork
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Coverage
Munster, Ireland, 1800-2000
Format
Text
Language
en
Type
Text
Subject
Women, Writers, Munster
Contributor
O'Toole, Tina
Birth Date
1940
Birthplace
Nenagh, Co Tipperary
Place of Association
Killaloe, Co Clare
Biographical Text
Sr. Helena O'Donoghue was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary in 1940 and entered the Mercy order of nuns in 1958. She attended UCD where she took the H.Dip. in Education (1966). She was a teacher and later principal of the girls' secondary school run by her order in Nenagh. She left teaching in 1976 to work in a lay community in Dublin, then moved to Shannon before being appointed Superior General of the Mercy Sisters in Killaloe in 1985. She was also President of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors in Ireland from 1989 onwards. She has written for religious journals and published Sisters in Transition. She is viewed by many as a progressive voice in Irish church life today.
Writing Genre
Religious Writing