Founded in 1665 , the Benedictine menastery in YPRES, BELGIUM, provided an education and religious community for Irish women at a time when strict anti-Catholic laws were in place in lreland.
Lady Abbess Joseph Butler from Country Kilkenmy became
the firstIrish-born Abbessat Ypres
when she was elected in August 1686. Following an invitation from King James Ⅱ to establish a Royal Benedictine Abbey in Dublin in 1688,
Lady Abbess Butler and some of her community came to Ireland but following the defeat of King James at the BATTLE OF THE BOYNE in 1690,they returned to YPRES,where they remained for over 200 YEARS.
【イープルの修道女たち(The Dames of Ypres) 1665年に創設されたベルギー・イープルのベネディクト会修道院は、アイルランドで厳しい 反カトリック法が施行されていた時代に、アイルランドの女性たちに教育と宗教的共同体を 提供していました。
「RE-BUILDING of KYLEMORE ABBEY (destroyed by fire in 1959)」 【カイルモア修道院の再建 (1959年の火災で焼失)】
メクティルド修道院長(1959年)の証言
″The tower bell MELTED into THIN AIR…The leaded roof was no more;atairways,iron bedsteads hung off the remaining turrets,a sorry sight,but THANK GOD only GOODS and CHATTELS.No person was injured,all just suffering from shock"
「1921 the RIGHTS and privileges of Ypres were transferred to KYlemore Abbey,making it the first Benedictine monastery established in IRELAND since the 1600s.」
「The Indian Princesses in the early 1930s,two Indian princesses attended Kylemore as boaders. The princesses were nieces of a Maharajya,who owned nearby Ballynahinch Castle for a time.」
「ln the latter years of the 20th century necessary restoration work was carried out on the Gothic church,the walled garden,and the Abbey itself.The funds earned through tourism go towards the upkeep of the COMMUNITY and on-going maintenance of the Abbey and edtate.」
「Mitchell Henry married Margaret Vaughaun from Quilly House , Dromore , County Down on the 30th August 1849
The Henrys had nine children and the family divided their time between thisbeautiful castle and heir city residence, STRATHEDEN HOUSE in LONDON. Sadly,great wealth proved no protection from adversity as just a few years later, Marguret died tragically while on a family holiday in EGYPT in 1874. Despite their loss, the Henrys remained at KYLEMORE CASTLE until 1902 after which time the Estate was sold to theDuke and Duchess of Manchester who remained in residence here until 1913.」
Mitchell Henryrepresented COUNTY GALWAY in the HOUSE OFCOMMONS at Westminster, London, for fourteen years (1871ー1885).
He was an active POLITICIAN and an ardent CAMPAIGNER for IRISH HOME RULE. A close associate of Isaac Butt,Mitchell was one of the founder members of the IRISH PARLIAMENTARY PARTY and was instrumental in setting up theHOME RULE LEAGUE in 1873.」
The Walled Gardencovered 8.5 ACRES in total and was divided into formal gardens and a STATE OF THE ART complex 0f 21 glasshouses which covered about an acre, arranged like a horseshow around the Parterre(formal gardens),all interconnected and HEATED WITH A CAST-IRON PIPE system of over 5,000 feet(1500 metres approx). The glasshouses were laid out by the first HEAD GARDENER James Garnier and designed
and built by CRANSTON'S in Bermingham.
The Walled Garden provided a wide range of fruit and vegetables, that included LUXURIES
UNTHINKABLE to ordinary Irish people such as grapes, nectarines, melons and even bananas.Produce grown at Kylemore was often served at the Henry's London Dinner parties.」
「Picking up a Meal upon the Coast,Killery Ray」 【キラリー湾沿いの海岸での収穫】
「MEN WERE EMPLOYED Mitchell Henry brought MUCH-NEEDED EMPLOYMENT to region SUFFERING from extreme poverty. Men WALKED FOR MILES when it known that WORKS was being offered at a FAIR WAGE,and at one time 300 men were employed as labourers and craftsmen.」 【男性たちが雇用された
ミッチェル・ヘンリーは、極度の貧困に苦しむ地域に、非常に必要とされていた雇用を もたらしました。
公正な賃金で仕事が提供されると知れ渡ると、男性たちは何マイルも歩いてやって来ました。
一時は、300人もの男性が労働者や職人として雇われていたのです。】
「Mitchchell Henry represented COUNTY GALWAY in the HOUSE OF COMMONS in London from 1871 to 1885. He was an active politician WHO throughout his career fought for the rights of his tenants and the people in the west of Ireland.」
「”...「the」condition of the West is daily becoming worse. The people have neither food nor clothes, nor credit to buy them, nor work to earn them. Blank despair is setting down upon the district, and the efforts of the few in this locality
who can give a little employment are as but a drop in the ocean of misery around... pale,thin and bloodless,silent,their condition is absolutely without hope."
Mitchell Henry,in a letter to the Lord Lieutant of Ireland,13TH DECEMBER 1879.」
Margaret Henry(マーガレット・ヘンリー夫人)の肖像画をズームして。 この肖像画は、カイルモア城の「ヴィクトリア朝時代の居住空間の再現展示」の一部として 飾られており、カイルモアの「愛の物語」を象徴する重要な存在。
「----Obituary----
Margaret Henry
FREEMANS JOYENAL,FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER 1874 We deeply regret to anaounce the death of Mrs Margaret Henry which occurred recentry in Egypt,where she had accompanied her husband and family on a tour through the East.
A fond and affectionate wife and a tender and loving mother,her premature demise will leave a blank in the circle of which she was the idol:and the poor of whom she was a kind and constant benefactor will long continue and have cause to mourn her loss. Of a truly benevolent and charitable disposition,it was her care to alleviate the suffering and aid the distressed,which she did,not through a sprit of parade and senseless vanity, but as a duty that springs from the highest and purest of impulses of the heart. In the vicinity of Kylemore castle,the splendid residence of her husband, the good which she did cannot be estimated.
The poor and destitute were by her supplied with food and clothing, and it was her custorn during all seasons of the year to visit the humble hornesteads on the estate and minister
freely to the wants of the occupants.The world knows not the extent of her benevolence, for she heeded the injunction that it was known to Hirn who sees and knows all things and will not heartily syrnpathise with Mr Mitchell Henry in his great bereavement,and regret the demise of his amiable and excellent lady.Mrs Mitchell Henry was 45 years of age and her death resylted an illness of 16 days of dysentery. 」