This article traces the educational mission of three Catholic convent boarding schools from the late eighteenth century until the 1920s, highlighting striking similarities in Catholic female education across different temporal and geographical contexts. Using institutional records, community annals and student roll books, this article considers how the priorities and structure of female education can shed light on implicit assumptions held by Catholic woman about the nature of girlhood and the purpose of education. It aims at a fuller understanding of the pedagogical model shared by these boarding schools and provides evidence of a strong cultural continuity in the ideals of Catholic girlhood across time. In doing so, it contributes to a perennial debate within the history of childhood on the historical narrativisation of continuity.

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天主教修道院学校和爱尔兰少女的历史：课程和连续性 1780-1920

本文追溯了从 18 世纪晚期到 1920 年代三所天主教修道院寄宿学校的教育使命，突出了不同时间和地理背景下天主教女性教育的惊人相似之处。本文使用机构记录、社区年鉴和学生名册，探讨女性教育的优先事项和结构如何阐明天主教女性对少女的本质和教育目的的隐含假设。它旨在更全面地了解这些寄宿学校共享的教学模式，并提供证据证明天主教少女时代的理想具有强大的文化连续性。在这样做的过程中，它促成了童年历史中关于连续性的历史叙事化的长期辩论。