Part 1
On a January morning in 1956 a sister wearing the blue habit and distinctive white collar and cornette, or headdress, of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul left Clonard Convent in the heart of Roman Catholic West Belfast to walk the short

Part 2
Some contemporary Catholics were critical. Instructing girls may have been women's work but going into the royal prisons, the antechambers of Hell, and onto the battlefields was a job for male religious, if indeed it needed to be done at all.

Part 3
Those who could not take the regime left. There was a coldness, even ruthlessness in the way the Daughters of Charity dealt with its failures. They were seminary sisters one day and gone the next. No comment was made when a sister left and no questions