Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Chapter 1 1868-1897: From Birth to Ordination 10
Chapter 2 Teaching and Directing in the Apostolic School, Mungret College 23
Chapter 3 1913-1916: Rector of the whole College 35
Chapter 4 1916-1923: Troubled Times, Civil War and Limerick Refugees 53
Chapter 5 Writer, Social Reformer and Founder of An Rioghacht 70
Chapter 6 Social Reform, 'Modern Women', Jewry, Fascism and the Attractions of Home 85
Chapter 7 Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement 95
Chapter 8 From Freemasonry to the Framework of a Christian State 108
Chapter 9 A Hostile Review, Lectures in Cork, Flight from the Land 127
Chapter 10 Edward Cahill, de Valera, and the Irish Constitution 145
Chapter 11 Recognition and Recrimination: Reports on Catholic Action and the Banking Inquiry (1934-1938) 161
Chapter 12 The Final Years: 1939-1941 186
Chapter 13 Funeral, Comments of Press and Colleagues, and An Assessment 192
Notes 200
