Mount Jerome: Dublin’s Victorian Cemetery, by Maurice Curtis (The Old Dublin Press, €24.95 / £21.99) Cemeteries have a peculiar fascination for my imagination. But they have their perils. I can still recall the great difficulty of navigating between the plots to reach the grave of the poet and economist George Russell (“AE”), when a…
I held the pen and God did the Writing, by John Tado (Cocoon Press, €10.00 / £ 8.99) The author of this little volume of poems, his second, is a Cork man who began late in life writing what he sees as the poems of a “Catholic poet”. Very much a local man, the…
Slavery: America’s long reckoning from the Founding Era to Today, by Scott Spillman (Basic Books / Little Brown, €35.00 /£30.00) This is not a book about slavery. It is, instead, about how Americans have made sense of slavery: how they have researched and written about it; how they have justified and criticised it.” Such is…
Peter Costello