by Florence Boyle

A schools inspection report of 1891 found that while results at the more junior end of Catholic schools in Scotland were ‘creditable’ the deficiencies further up the school were of a scale ‘which no industry of teachers, no skill of the managers, no stimulus of inspection can remedy, for it arises solely from the intellectual defects of a staff who have not received a regular and thorough training’. Archbishop Eyre invited the Sisters of Notre Dame to remedy the situation and they arrived in Glasgow in 1894.