[1][2] It was administered by a committee of Anglican women, a matron, and a chaplain who was a Church of Ireland priest.
The motto of the asylum was "That they may recover themselves out of the snares of the devil" (II Timothy 2:24).
[3][better source needed] A chaplain and secretary to the laundry, Rev.
Dr. James S. Fletcher DD (parish priest of Brookfield, Milltown Co. Dublin), wrote a paper titled Our Female Penitentiaries can be made self-supporting!, which was discussed at the International Prison Congress.
[5] It was mentioned in James Joyce's short story Clay in Dubliners.