Ursula Frayne - A Woman of Mercy

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This is the story of a great love for people in exile, of a woman who crossed the world by sailing ship to support the struggling minority of her Celtic clan and discovered another race more severely dispossessed than her own in newly colonised Australia. This is the story of an extraordinary woman, a pioneer educator, welfare reformer, advocate and policy maker. She led a group of courageous Irish women committed in faith to the pursuit of justice and compassion. They were called Sisters of Mercy and they first set foot on Australian shores over 150 years ago. Her name was Ursula Frayne.