Drawing back the veil

NUNS in Cobh, Co Cork, are currently enjoying their 15 minutes of fame as part of a new documentary.

Filmed by renowned London fashion photographer, Michael Luke Davies, Tyburn Convent Gloria Deo, depicts scenes of life in Tyburn monasteries around the world, but the Cork nuns feature highly.

They are immortalised in film, along with their sisters in monasteries in Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Rome, New Zealand, Australia, England and Scotland.