Richard Devane SJ : Social Advocate and Free State Campaigner 1876-1951.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Provincials of the Society of Jesus in Ireland 1912-53 -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE EARLY FAMILY LIFE AND EDUCATION, 1876-1901 -- The Devane family -- The Christian Brothers, Limerick -- The Sacred Heart College, Limerick -- Mungret College -- St Munchin's College -- Maynooth Seminary College, Kildare -- CHAPTER TWO The Curate in Middlesbrough and Limerick City, 1901-18 -- Devane's first parish -- Back in Limerick -- St Joseph's Church -- The military chaplain -- Intemperance in Limerick city -- St Ita's House for young Catholic girls -- Ridding the city of 'evil' literature -- Troubling brewing in Limerick -- Ireland, Nationalism and the war in Europe -- Trade unions and social action -- The conscription crisis in 1918 -- CHAPTER THREE The First Decade as a Jesuit, 1918-29 -- A novice at Tullabeg -- The closed retreat system in the 1920s -- Temperance at the closed retreats -- The role women were expected to play in the new Ireland -- The closure of the Monto -- Irish Catholic nurses -- The campaign against 'evil' literature in the Irish Free State -- CHAPTER FOUR Turmoil in Ireland, 1930-40 -- 'The Soldier's Song' -- Devane and Catholic Action -- The closed retreat system in the 1930s -- The Prima Primaria of the Sodality of Our Lady -- The threat of Communism in Ireland -- 'Street corner hooligans' -- The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 -- Devane and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland -- Taking a dip: Devane and Irish bathing -- Dance halls - the 'hideous shacks' of rural Ireland -- Devane's rural idyll -- Projecting Ireland on the big screen -- CHAPTER FIVE To Finish His Life's Work, 1940-51 -- The Second World War begins -- Summer time comes early -- The next generation of Irish youth. Devane and the Commission on Youth Unemployment -- The breakdown of individualism in 1945 -- The problem with Irish middle-class youth -- An Irish Film Institute at last -- Immoral literature: Devane's last campaign -- Myles na gCopaleen -- Sunday newspapers - the preserve of the working classes -- The National Protest Committee -- Establishing an Irish Union of Journalists -- Archbishop McQuaid, Devane and immoral literature -- Devane's death -- CONCLUSION Richard Devane's Legacy.