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For a century, Opus Dei has transmitted to the world a message of encounter with God in ordinary life. A first of its kind, this book is an extensive investigation of this institution and its founder, Josemaría Escrivá. All documentation that exists and is preserved about Opus Dei and its founder, as well as numerous oral testimonies, have been accessed in order to leave no rock unturned in this historical reveal of one of the Church's most fascinating modern lay and clerical organization. PART IInternational Consolidation (1962-1975)Chapter 1. Governance of a Global EntitySection 1. An Ongoing Process of FoundingSection 2. Central and Regional Governing Bodies Chapter 2. FormationSection 1. St. Raphael's WorkSection 2. Philosophical and Theological Educationof NumerariesSection 3. Professional and Family Care of PersonsSection 4. Associates and SupernumerariesSection 5. The Diocesan ClergyChapter 3. Institutional ActivitiesSection 1. Higher EducationSection 2. Primary and Secondary SchoolsSection 3. Technical and Vocational Training CentersSection 4. Development and Demise of Common WorksSection 5. Financial Support of Apostolic ActivitiesChapter 4. Theological-Legal DevelopmentsSection 1. An Anomalous SituationSection 2. The Message of Opus Dei at Vatican Council IISection 3. The Special General CongressChapter 5. A Post-Conciliar Legacy Section 1. Doctrinal and Liturgical MeasuresSection 2. Activity of Members in Spanish Politicsand Other SettingsSection 3. The Founder's Final Projects, Writings, and TravelsPART IITHE YEARS OF ESCRIVÁ'SFIRST SUCCESSOR (1975-1994Chapter 6. A New Hand at the HelmSection 1. A New "Father" in Opus DeiSection 2. Governing Opus Dei Section 3. Activities of the PrelateSection 4. Relations with John Paul II Chapter 7. The Legal Solution Section 1. The ProcessSection 2. Advantages of the New Legal StatusSection 3. Protecting the Prelature Chapter 8. Growth Section 1. Numerical Growth Section 2. New CountriesChapter 9. Doctrinal Formation Section 1. Cooperators and Young People Section 2. Formation of Members of the WorkSection 3. Service to the ChurchChapter 10. Apostolic Activities Section 1 Educational ActivitiesSection 2. Social Works Chapter 11. Public Opinion Section 1. Spain: The Rumasa Affair Section 2. Great Britain: Cardinal Hume Speaks Section 3. Germany: Opus Dei Defends Itself in the Courts Section 4. Italy: A Parliamentary Inquiry Chapter 12. The Beatification of the Founder Section 1. Escrivá's Process of Beatification Section 2. Controversy over the Beatification PART IIITHE THIRD GENERATION (1994-2016) / 275

This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it acts as a prism through which to view the power of the ascendancy class in the second half of the nineteenth century. In this period the cultural hegemony of Ireland was dominated by the ascendancy class, which remained reasonably intact but was beginning to break down. At the heart of this class was Conolly, who moved from space to space engaging in the social rituals that connected the elites within the wider social and political arenas. This study contextualises Conolly's activities and the lifestyles of other powerful landowners in Irish society in the mid-nineteenth century. At the core of this study is Castletown, the most important Palladian house in Ireland. Looking at Conolly, a connection to the wider ascendancy society, places Castletown within a world that, in the twenty-first century, has disappeared.

In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the mountainous boggy lands of Sliabh Luachra, the region was dominated by the lordships of the MacDonogh-MacCarthys, the MacAuliffes, the O'Callaghans, and the O'Keeffes. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, these lordships had largely been dismantled and the region was increasingly dominated by New English settler families such as the Boyles, Percivals, and Aldworths residing around new towns at Newmarket and Kanturk. This study charts the transformation of early modern Duhallow by examining the crisis of Irish lordship in the region under the Tudors and the decline and fall of the lordships during the early Stuart period. In doing so, it examines a microcosm of how Irish lordship was often destroyed not by direct conquest and colonisation, but by a gradual process of economic, social, and political erosion.