Our Lady of Coogee

Eileen O'Connor and the founding of Sydney's Brown Nurses

Mary O'Connell

In 1913 the Irish-Australian mystic Eileen O’Connor and her spiritual partner Edward McGrath MSC, founded Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor in Coogee, a seaside suburb of Sydney, in a creative, compassionate and surprisingly transgressive act.

                     … a substantive social and interior history of romance, conflict, love, sacrifice and pain …

‘sure and confident handling of historical visionary … a work of extraordinary literary as well as intellectual skill’ – Alison Bashford, Chair of Australian Studies, Harvard University

‘fascinating, well-sourced and impossible to put down … an inside view of the passions, power struggles and mystical heart of the Catholic Church.’ – Therese Taylor, author of Bernadette of Lourdes, Her Life, Death and Visions

ISBN 978 1 876906 05 4

Illustrated, bibliography, index, 239 + xx pages

$29.95 RRP

including GST (also including postage and handling within Australia)

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