Catherine KilBride was Director-Education of The Marketing Institute, before moving into third-level education, lecturing in Education Leadership and supervising pre-service teachers at University College Dublin. She is now a full-time writer and translator. This is her fourth book. Deidre Raftery is Professor of the History of Education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has thirteen book publications including (jointly) Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy (2018); Transnationalism, Gender and the History of Education (2017), and was recently awarded the CHWR Distinguished Historian Award, at Notre Dame. Her research specialism is the history of women religious (nuns).