Margaret Louisa Aylward (1810-1889) is best known as the founder of the Catholic religious order Sisters of the Holy Faith and the network of St Brigid’s national schools for girls. However, in 1860 she was imprisoned in the Grangegorman Female Penitentiary for kidnap. Discover more about Margaret Aylward’s life
Grangegorman Lives is a series of biographies of over 60 women and men whose lives influenced or were influenced by Grangegorman. The biographies are all sourced from Ireland’s Dictionary of Irish Biography: Ireland’s national biographical dictionary. Devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, its online edition is freely available at www.dib.ie
Article image: © Romuald Gibson FMS courtesy of the Holy Faith Archives.