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23-592: The Canberra Youth Orchestra was established in 1967. It traces its origins to 1962 and a small informal gathering of external players with the Braddon Catholic Girls High School Orchestra, with the orchestra conducted by Brigidine nun, Mother Winifred. The Canberra Youth Orchestra was one of the key ensembles in the Canberra Youth Orchestra Society. The Canberra Youth Orchestra Society became Canberra Youth Music Inc. which

46-568: A request from a bishop in New South Wales , six sisters from Mountrath went to Australia. They founded their first establishment in Coonamble, New South Wales . From there branches quickly spread to the dioceses of Sydney , Bathurst, Canberra-Goulburn , Perth and Brisbane as well as to the Archdiocese of Wellington , New Zealand , in 1898. The institute, although several times approved by

69-451: Is called the Whitehorse and gets its name from the white colouring that was present in its water from the whiskey distillery that used to be in the centre of the town. The important Synod of Ráth Breasail was held near Mountrath in 1111 . In the beginning of the 17th century, the lands around Mountrath became the property of Charles Coote. Despite the wild surrounding country, which

92-887: The British Isles and founded the first two convents in the UK: St Brigid's School (1939) in Denbigh , Wales and Brigidine Convent (1948) in Windsor , England . The archive of the Brigidine Sisters is stored in the Delany Archive in Carlow College . The Brigidine motto is Fortiter et Suaviter , which is Latin for "Strength and Kindliness". Its mission is the education and evangelisation of youth. Mountrath Mountrath ( Irish : Maighean Rátha , meaning 'homestead of

115-654: The CYO back up to a full strength orchestra of 60-70 players. Brigidine Sisters The Brigidine Sisters (also known as the Brigidine Order , or simply the Brigidines ) are a global Roman Catholic congregation , founded by Bishop Daniel Delany in Tullow , Ireland on 1 February 1807. The sisters' apostolate is education. In 1783, Daniel Delany, coadjutor to James Keeffe, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, established at Tullow,

138-524: The CYO re-established a regular subscription season at Llewellyn Hall . As part of the CYO 50th anniversary season in 2017, the orchestra performed with The Idea of North and Australian trumpeter James Morrison . In 2018 the orchestra performed with local icon Lucy Sugerman, with Weiss and Sugerman orchestrating her original works. In 2021, incoming CYO conductor Louis Sharpe opined that the CYO had fallen on hard times, in part because of upheaval at ANU School of Music . Sharpe intimated his ambition to build

161-682: The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Two years later, he founded the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine . In 1788, Delany succeeded Keeffe as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Keenly aware of the lamentable state to which religion had been reduced by the Penal Laws, he sought to remedy the situation by applying himself to secure the proper observance of the Lord's Day, and the religious instruction of

184-629: The Holy See, continued a diocesan congregation until 1892, when Pope Leo XIII , on being solicited to place all the houses of the institute under a mother-general, issued a Decree approving of change in government for five years by way of experiment, and in 1907 Pope Pius X confirmed, in perpetuity, the constitution of the new regime. In 1923 it was opened the first house of the New Brigidine Order in Djursholm , near Stockholm. The Sisters returned to

207-471: The bishop. He made application for a site to Mr. Hawkesworth, agent to Lord Castlecoote. This gentleman found Dr. Delany a suitable plot from his own landholdings and shortly after, through his influence with the proprietor, procured a perpetual peppercorn lease as a site for a parish church. Building commenced about 1795. On 18 April 1809, the Convent of St. Brigid, at Mountrath, was founded by three sisters from

230-704: The castle and estate of Mountrath, along with other properties and following the Restoration , was created Earl of Mountrath . This title was extant until the death of Charles Henry, the 7th Earl, in 1802, when it became extinct. Newpark, adjoining the town, was the residence of the Earl of Mountrath. In 1831 the town contained 429 houses; iron was made and wrought here till the neighbouring woods were consumed for charcoal fuel. The Post Chaise Companion, published in 1805, states that: In his 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland entry for Mountrath, Samuel Lewis states that: In

253-658: The children and adult women of his parish and diocese. To inaugurate his work there he formed catechism and reading classes to be held in the church on Sundays, and drew his catechists from the two confraternities. Delany traveled to Cork to invite the Presentation Sisters to his diocese, but they had no sisters to spare. The Institute of the Brigidines was established by Daniel Delaney, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, at Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland, in 1807. An earlier congregation linked to Saint Brigid had been founded in

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276-575: The fifth century AD, and had lasted until the Reformation ; Bishop Delany considered the establishment of this new congregation to be merely a refounding of the original one. In order to demonstrate this continuity, he brought an oak sapling with him from Kildare and planted it in the grounds of the new convent in Tullow , County Carlow . The sisters were: Eleanor Tallon, Margaret Kinsella, Eleanor Dawson, Judith Whelan, Bridget Brien and Catherine Doyle. Bishop Delany allowed them to make vows, and thus laid

299-596: The foundation of the Brigidine Institute, one of the first of the kind founded in Ireland since the Reformation. Delany gave them a rule based on that of St. Augustine . The sisters immediately opened schools for the poorer and higher classes of children in the neighbourhood. This work proving successful, a building was erected for the accommodation of boarders who presented themselves, but who had until then to lodge in

322-569: The latter portion of the eighteenth and early nineteenth twentieth century, the Orange Order was strong in the town of Mountrath and surrounding townships. Older leases granted on the Castlecoote estate, on which the town was built, were written in strict accordance with the Penal Laws, and contained a clause prohibiting the letting, selling, or bestowal of ground for the purpose of erecting a Roman Catholic Church . In consequence of this prohibition,

345-486: The mother house at Tullow and brought from Tullow by horse and dray by Bill Delaney and Michael Fitzpatrick. Soon after, the Monastery of St. Patrick was established. Both convent and monastery communities were employed in the education of Roman Catholic pupils. A new church was completed in 1867. In October 2017 the Brigidine Sisters gifted the convent to the community of Mountrath for the long-term benefit and development of

368-508: The place of worship used by local Catholics stood upon a sand-bank beside a tributary of the River Nore called 'The Brook". In 1794, Dr. Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, whose mother was a Fitzpatrick of Deerpark, proposed to build a parish church. Lord Castlecoote was publicly opposed to the proposal but the political climate of toleration that followed the Relief Act of 1793 encouraged

391-548: The ringfort') is a small town in County Laois , Ireland . The town lies on the R445 midway between Dublin and Limerick , exactly 96.5 km (60 mi) from both cities. The town was bypassed by the M7 motorway in 2010 leading to a significant easing of traffic congestion in the town. As of the 2022 census , Mountrath had a population of 2,070. The river that flows through the town

414-832: The sisters began a button factory in Tullow to raise the funds for a new school building. In 1842, another house was established in Abbeyleix , also in County Laois. Then, in 1858 a layman in Goresbridge , County Kilkenny offered to help finance a foundation in his parish. The Paulstown foundation soon followed. The Sisters came to the village of Ballyroan in 1877. Three sisters from the Abbeyleix Community took up residence in their newly built convent on 25 September of that year. The convent and school closed in 1974. In 1883, in answer to

437-494: The town and surrounding areas. In 2018 a fitness and martial arts academy opened its doors to the public offering Karate, Jujitsu, Kickboxing and Fitness classes. In 2018, building work commenced on a new Enterprise Hub and Community Centre within the confines of the convent buildings.{ } Near Mountrath on the R445 towards Portlaoise is a shapeless old Wish Tree in the form of a Sycamore tree called St Fintan's Well . The original well

460-531: The town. Soon many came to avail themselves of the advantages of religious and secular education afforded by the Brigidine Sisters. In April 1809, he sent three of the sisters from the mother house at Tullow to Mountrath in County Laois , where they founded a convent. The sisters were employed in education. The Brigidine Convent school closed in June 2009. In September 2009 it amalgamated with nearby Patrician College Ballyfin to form Mountrath Community School . In 1824,

483-562: Was covered with woodlands, he laid the foundation of the present town. In 1628 Coote obtained for the inhabitants a grant of two weekly markets and two fairs, and established a very extensive linen and fustian manufactory. In the year 1641, as a Royalist supporter, much of his property was destroyed during the Irish Confederacy in the War of the Three Kingdoms . His son Sam Coote regained

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506-638: Was filled in, but the water re-appeared in the centre of the tree. Hundreds of pennies have been beaten into the bark as good luck offerings, until they eventually killed the tree but it began to sprout new shoots from its trunk and is growing again. Local folklore suggests that the water in the centre of the tree was a cure for warts. The local secondary schools of St Aengus and The Brigidine Convent in Mountrath both closed in mid-2009. In September 2009 they amalgamated with nearby Patrician College in Ballyfin to form

529-801: Was merged with Music for Everyone to form Music for Canberra in 2015. The Canberra Youth Orchestra travelled to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1980 to take part in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras. In 1985, the CYO was named best symphony orchestra in the International Youth and Music Festival, in Vienna. It had also won the Austrian Radio and Television prize for the best radio performance. The CYO performed Sitsky: In Celebration of Larry's 80th Birthday on 31 October 2014 to commemorate its patron's 80th birthday. With conductor Leonard Weiss ,

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