Daring to Hope?

Irish Religious Sisters Embracing the Unknown (1923 – 2023)

Video Credit: @smabroadcast8622

‘Daring to Hope’ is a social history project, which shares through a photographic exhibition, the work of Irish Religious Sisters in Ireland and overseas from 1923-2023. Throughout the years, the focus of the sisters in keeping with gospel values, was to go where there was the most need.  

With the support?of the AMRI Executive Council (Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland), a voluntary group of five women developed this portable, photographic exhibition. It reveals the multifaceted story of Irish Religious Sisters from 1923–2023, which coincides with the centenary of the Irish State.   

During the past 100 years, the sisters working alongside committed colleagues,?built schools and hospitals and developed social services, in response to social change and urgent need. Through photographs and videos, the exhibition demonstrates how the Sisters often worked within the context of poverty, war, racial discrimination, strict religious and social mores, political unrest and grave injustice.? 

The 100-year journey of Irish Religious Sisters is in three phases:? 

Pre-Vatican 11 (1923 – 1965) Pioneering ministries? 
Post Vatican 11 (1966 – 2000) Era of Great change? 
Contemporary (2001 – 2023) Ongoing Ministries?