Freedom to achieve freedom: The Irish Free State 1922-1932 by Donal P. Corcoran (Gill & Macmillan, €39.99/£35.00)
Month: November 2013
Year of Faith and opportunity
Andrew O’Connell assesses the event, which closed last Sunday
The woman behind Mary Poppins
Saving Mr Banks (PG) Mary Poppins remains one of the most loved (and popular) Walt Disney films of all time. It was also one of the first to combine animation with real characters, not Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as many people believe. Not much is known about P.L. Travers, the writer of the book on…
The quiet eye of a Jesuit
Peter CostelloFather Browne’s Laois edited by E. E. O’Donnell (Messenger Publications, €15.00 hb / £17.64)
The light of other days
Donnybrook: A History (Ireland in Old Photographs) by Beatrice Doran (History Press, €17.99 / £16.99)
Beware misguided loyalties
Anyone familiar with the life and writings of Simone Weil will, I am sure, agree that she was a woman of exceptional faith. She was also a woman with an unwavering commitment to the poor. But, and this may seem anomalous, she was also exceptional and unwavering in a certain resistance she had towards the…
The life and thought of Canon Sheehan
Canon Sheehan of Doneraile 1852-1913: Outlines for a Literary Biography by James O’Brien (Smenos, €23.00 plus p+p / £19.50 plus p+p ; ISBN-13: 978-0957552166; smenosbooks@yahoo.co.uk )
Faith-based sector ‘at the heart of communities’
NI Development Minister pays tribute to the work of parishes and faith-based organisations
Portrait of the Marble City
Hidden Kilkenny: Knaves, Knights and Norman Abbots by John Keane (Mercier Press, €19.99 / £17.50)
Tragedy of a special kind
In the week since our last issue the world has been marking the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. This has evoked many articles, and a Hollywood film, Parkland, about the immediate aftermath of the crime. We all of us remember where we were when we heard the…