The Lady of the Lantern

Before we left the Díseart Chapel, I found another series of murals ... also painted by Eleanor Yates, the artist from Denver, Colorado who painted the “Last Supper” in the nuns’ dining room at the former Convent of the Presentation Sisters.

This series was painted in what would have been the community room of the sisters. Today, the room is used as a music/presentation room. I was disappointed that the equipment sitting against the walls detracted from the paintings, but it is what it is.

The subject of the murals was Nano Nagle — the founder of the Sisters of Presentation in Ireland. The daughter of landed Irish gentry, she dedicated herself to the education of the kids of poor families. Going from hovel to hovel, she searched out these kids, earning herself the nickname of “The Lady of the Lantern.”Read more