Frank Duff: A Life Story

by Finola Kennedy

Overview

A new biography of the Founder of the Legion of Mary, one of the Catholic Church's most effective charitable agencies in the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441167477
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Finola Kennedy has been a Lecturer at University College Dublin and at the Institute of Public Administration, Ireland. She has served on a number of Boards, including the Housing Finance Agency (chairman), ACCBank and the Railway Procurement Agency. She was a member of the Review Group on the Constitution and the Commission on the Status of Women.

She is the author of the pioneering study, Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (2001). She has contributed frequently to newspapers such as the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post and the Sunday Independent.

Table of Contents

Introduction \ 1. Beginnings \ 2. Blackrock College \ 3. The Civil Servant as a Young Man \ 4. Joseph Gabbett \ 5. Myra House and de Montfort \ 6. The Legion of Mary Begins \ 7. Work on 1923 Land Act \ 8. The Sancta Maria Hostel \ 9. The Morning Star and Regina Caeli Hostels \ 10. A Finance Man \ 11. Rome and Dublin Approve \ 12. Building the Legion \ 13. Rivalries \ 14. The McQuaid Era \ 15. Ecumenism \ 16. Battle for an Imprimatur \ 17. Edel, Fr Aedan, Alfie \ 18. Peregrinatio Pro Christo \ 19. Building the Nation \ 20. Before the Second Vatican Council \ 21. The Second Vatican Council \ 22. War and Peace \ 23. To Walk the Common Path \ 24. The Happy Mean \ 25. In the Spirit of Faith \ Glossary/Abbreviations \ Index