A FABULOUS collection of images by award-winning Killarney photographer Valerie O’Sullivan feature in a new book capturing a year in the life of the nuns at Glencairn Abbey.
Proceeds from the hardback coffee table book will go to the order’s Abbey restoration fund and the publication is expected to be in big demand.
Published by Columba Press, Valerie’s photographs capture the sisters at work, in prayer and at play as they go about their everyday lives in their monastery in the Blackwater Valley, three miles from Lismore, Co Waterford.
The only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland, the nuns dedicate their life to Christ in a life of prayer and community, solitude and simplicity, work and hospitality.
The community was founded in 1932 by Holy Cross Abbey in Stapehill, England with the support of the monks of Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford.
The new book, which has just been published, is priced at €24.99 and it is available directly from Glencairn Abbey by calling 058-56168 or emailing info@glencairnabbey.org.
Meanwhile, Valerie O’Sullivan will deliver the first in a series of Autumn Talks planned for Killarney House in the coming weeks.
She will discuss the People and Places of County Kerry in the Garden Room on Thursday, October 5 at 8.00pm and all are welcome.
Other lectures in the series will include a feature on rowing on the Lakes of Killarney by retired journalist Donal Hickey, the history of the Kerry Deer Society by park ranger Tim Burkitt and the reintroduction of the white-tailed see eagles to Ireland by Dr Allan Mee.
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