This story of Ninette de Valois' mythic rise to fame as dancer, choreo-grapher and director is illustrated with over fifty photographs and brought to life by sketches of Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Oliver St John Gogarty, Tyrone Guthrie, Lilian Baylis, Margot Fonteyn, Lydia Lopokova, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert, among others.
Fr Richard Stanislaus Devane SJ was a social advocate and campaigner in the early years of the Irish Free State. This comprehensive study places Fr Devane within the narrative of Irish history o the early twentieth century.