From our Dominican Collection, an embroidered red silk chalice veil with red silk lining which dates to the late 16th – early 17th century.
The Dominican Sisters established a community in Galway in 1644, residing originally at New Tower Street, now St. Augustine Street. After fleeing Galway during the Cromwellian occupation of 1651/2, Sisters Mary Lynch and Julian Nolan returned from exile in Spain in 1686 and re-established a convent at the Slate Nunnery, Kirwan’s Lane, where Busker Browne’s is now. In 1845 the Sisters moved to the Convent at Taylors Hill, Galway.
