A perfect sunny day as Sr Marie Therese Brosnan delights Caitlin Barry, blowing bubbles with her in the garden of St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn, Co. Waterford. The picture is contained in a new book, A Year in the Life of Glencairn Abbey, which – through a series of images and words – offers a rare insight into the daily life of the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland. The coffee table-style book is published by Columba Press with accompanying photographs courtesy of photographer Valerie O’Sullivan, Killarney.
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