lit a candle 2h agoMy mother grew up near Granard and always spoke of the Mercy sisters there, Sr. Andrea among them, as the kind ones who'd stop and actually talk to you on the road. She called me this morning from New Jersey just to tell me she'd passed. Never met her myself, but that sense of her, warm, unhurried, has come down through three generations of my family. Rest easy, Sister.
Their story
Sr. Andrea (Rose) Brady was a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Western Branch, who spent the later part of her religious life at 'Shalom', Convent of Mercy, Edgeworthstown, and formerly of Athlone, Florida, and Granard, Co. Longford . She was originally from Grousehall House, Loughduff, County Cavan, the daughter…
Sr. Andrea (Rose) Brady was a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Western Branch, who spent the later part of her religious life at
'Shalom', Convent of Mercy, Edgeworthstown, and formerly of Athlone, Florida, and Granard, Co. Longford
. She was originally from Grousehall House, Loughduff, County Cavan,
the daughter of Mary-Anne and Patrick Brady
.
Little has been published about the details of her entry into religious life, her education, or the schools, parishes or communities she served over the decades, and no Wikipedia page or formal biography exists for her. What is documented, through death notices carried by local Irish papers and funeral directories, is the shape of a long life given to religious community and to family across County Cavan and County Longford.
She was predeceased by sisters Kathleen, Mary, Margaret and Sheila, brothers Fr. Brian and John, her step-mother Mary-Anne, half-sister Nancy, half-brothers Pat-Joe and Mattie, brother-in-law Paddy and sisters-in-law Bridie and Helen
.
Sr. Andrea mattered to the people who knew her chiefly as a presence within the Mercy community and within the wider circle of family and neighbours in Cavan and Longford, rather than as a public figure in the conventional sense. Local reporting on her death described her as a warm and friendly person, reflecting how she was remembered by those in Longford who had known her.
Sr. Andrea (Rose) Brady
passed away peacefully on Saturday 23rd October 2026, in the dedicated care of the management and staff in Our Lady's Manor Nursing Home, Edgeworthstown, surrounded by her loving family and Mercy Community
. Her death was announced through local death notice channels including Shannonside, Northern Sound and the Longford Leader, rather than through a national obituary, consistent with a life lived largely outside the public eye. No cause of death was given in any of the notices or local reports.
She was
reposed in Our Lady's Manor, Edgeworthstown on Sunday from 4.00pm concluding with prayers at 5.30pm, followed by removal to St. Joseph's Church, Loughduff, arriving at 7pm
, with
a Mass of the Resurrection on Monday at 11.00am, followed by burial in Loughduff Cemetery
. She was survived by
her loving sisters Helen, Nuala and Gabrielle, brothers Peter, Noel and Michael
, along with nieces, nephews, relatives, friends and her fellow Sisters of Mercy.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Longford Leader.
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Lovely to hear that reached you all the way to the States.