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| SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF CLUNY In September, 1906 Father Letters invited the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny to take charge of the school. The first Head from 1906 to 1909 was Sister Aloysius. Sister Agnes took her place in 1909 and with the exception of one year in Stranraer in 1917 she remained in Irvine until illness forced her to retire in 1919. Her place was taken by Sister Anthony, until her resignation on 23 March, 1921. Shortly afterwards the sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny left Irvine. They had lived in Bar-Loch, two houses away from the church in West Road and in particular their Superior, Mother Clemence had been well known and liked in the town. She spent much of her time taking soup to the sick. Finally she caught a fever herself and died. The parishioners collected for a baptismal font for the church as a memorial to her. Old parishioners also remember Sister Salvius, the cook, Sister Christina and Sister Aglaia whom, as children, they called 'Sister Gladeye'. In 191 I Father Thomas Joyce became parish priest of St. Mary's. He was very active, renovating the Church, founding a branch of the Children of Mary and starting the Catholic Young Men's Society, which successfully held the men of the parish together until the Great War broke out in 1914. |
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