elgium and took refuse in England....

In their trouble, anxiety, and distress they sought counsel with
Irishmen to aid them in considering the best way of finding a
suitable home in the old land. Providentially such a home
offered itself in Merton House, Macmine, County Wexford.
Recently the Mother Prioress and one of the nuns visited the
place, and were pleased with it. Acting on the advice of their
friends they resolved to purchase it. We now venture to appeal
to Irishmen and Irishwomen in Ireland and abroad to help us in
collecting the necessary funds. We make this appeal with
confidence.

The nuns have told the story of their flight from Belgium in the
book, _The Irish Nuns at Ypres_, published by Messrs. Smith,
Elder, of London. The tale is an epic which will live in the
history of those fearful times to the honour of the religious
Order and the glory of womanhood. Fidelity to religious and
national ideals has been their badge of distinction in every
eventuality. They shall have their reward. The heroism, the
self-devotion, the religious faith, the Christian zeal and
charity of those Irish nuns in a terrible crisis in the history
of the Order will, we venture to say, command universal respect
and admiration, mingled with pity for their fate, and an earnest
desire, among all generous souls, to help them in retrieving
their fortunes.

J.E. REDMOND, M.P.
R. BARRY O'BRIEN.

Subscriptions to "The Irish Nuns of Ypres Fund" will be received
by J.E. REDMOND, M.P., Aughavanagh, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow; R.
BARRY O'BRIEN, 100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London; the Right
Rev. ABBOT MARMION, O.S.B., Edermine, Enniscorthy; Mr. M.J.
O'CONNOR, Solicitor Wexford; and the _Freeman's Journal_,
Prince's Street, Dublin.

_February, 1916._

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