Mother Michael Corcoran (born Frances Corcoran, 5 July 1846- 27 May 1927) was an Irish nun and the longest serving Superior General of the Loreto Order.
[1] In 1865, Corcoran entered the Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham and took her father's name, Michael, as a religious name.
[2] In 1875, Corcoran was elected the Mother Superior of the Rathfarnham convent.
[3] This happened in 1888, when at the age of forty-two Corcoran was elected the Superior General of the Loreto Order, a position to which she was re-elected five times, and that she held for 32 years, making her the longest serving Superior General in the order's history.
[4] She founded Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, which she hoped would be made into the nation's first women's university, but without the support of Archbishop William Walsh, it never became such.