Richard Devane SJ
Social Advocate and Free State Campaigner 1876-1951
$51.23
- Paperback
220 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2019
Summary
A controversial figure in his time, and perhaps even more so today, Richard Devane SJ (1876–1951) was a thorn in the side of the governments of W T Cosgrave and Eamon de Valera. He is remembered equally as a defender of the conscience of the new Irish republic and as a sometimes over-zealous gatekeeper of Irish culture and morals. In Richard Devane SJ: Social Commentator and Advocate Martin Walsh takes on the task of placing Devane in context: not only the context of his time, that of the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788120296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788120299 |
| Author: | Martin Walsh |
| Publisher: | Messenger Publications |
| Imprint: | Messenger Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
About The Author
Martin Walsh
Martin graduated with a PhD from the University of Limerick in 2016. Martin’s research interests lie in the social history of nineteenth and twentieth-century modern Ireland and England. He is particularly interested in the ideas of nation-building through the ordering of the working-classes by middle-class social purists.
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