Kathleen Kilbane was born to Irish emigrant parents who had left Achill Island in Co Mayo to settle in Perth, Scotland in the 1920’s. Upon her mother’s death in 1937, Kathleen was placed in an Orphanage in Lanark, Scotland. Later she came briefly to live with her grandmother on Achill Island but was all too quickly diagnosed with suffering with tuberculosis. It was the same illness that took the life of her mother. Kathleen spent the last fifteen months of her life in St Teresa’s sanatorium passing from this world at the age of 14 in 1947.
Brother Conway’s remarkable account records Kathleen’s love for God and for others, regardless of her own personal suffering. Brother Conway wrote many handwritten copies of this account and when one of these came into the possession of Fr Brian McKevitt OP, he decided to publish the account under the title of ‘No More Tears in My Eyes’.
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