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“Bloom where you are planted” is the moto that Sr.Lillian Kaar lives her life by, and her story certainly lives up to this!

We sat down to chat with her at the Regina Coeli, Queen of Heaven Convent in Farranree in Cork city.

She told the story of her Estonian father Joe Kaar, who found himself taking refuge in Cork and she chatted about entering the order in South Pres, teaching in Bandon and then spending six wonderful years in Peru.

Her Peru experience was the foundation stone for her community work in Farranree, setting up a family resource centre in a location where there was huge unemployment and people who needed a lot of help and support.

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In the second series of the Nano Nagle Place podcast we leave South Pres and we visit the other convents in Cork city and county to see how the work of the Presentation Sisters reached far and wide.

In this episode we speak with Sr. Margaret Cashman, one of three Sisters that we met at the Presentation Convent in Youghal, Co. Cork, each with a very different story.

After the death of her father Sr. Margaret joined the Presentation Order and took up various roles across Ireland in Midleton, Dublin, Rathmore, South Pres and now Youghal.

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In the second series of the Nano Nagle Place podcast we leave South Pres and we visit the other convents in Cork city and county to see how the work of the Presentation Sisters reached far and wide.

In this episode we speak with Sr.Placida Ryan, one of three Sisters that we met at the Presentation Convent in Youghal, Co,Cork, each with a very different story.

Sr.Placida spoke about one of her teachers, Jim O'Brien, who encouraged all of his students to learn about the world and this left a big mark and curiosity with her.

She shared stories about her fascinating teaching career that took her all around the world and she tells the story of the convent in Youghal that dates back to 1834.

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Sister Julie Watson, the Congregation Leader of the Presentation Sisters is the guest for the final episode of the special series that took us from the closing of the school doors at South Pres to what we know and enjoy today as Nano Nagle Place.

She has had a fascinating career, having spent 24 years in Pakistan doing what she was passionate about, which was teaching and it is there that she started to fully appreciate Nano Nagle and was quite moved as the children spoke about Nano in the present tense.

Nano Nagle Place is beyond all her expectations and she views it as a "living legacy" of Nano's work and life.

She speaks about the now, the future and importance of "walking lightly on the earth and harnessing the energy of love"

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This podcast has been produced by Fuzion Communications.