Writing history about living people is a perilous trade

Are We Together? Community Life in Action by David Gibson (Cluain Mhuire Press, €20.50 / $27.50 from Amazon.com)

This book was of special interest to me. Behind the house in which I grew up in Rathmines was a triangular plot of land, a left over between three earlier developments. In the late 1940s and early 1950s this allotment was cultivated by unemployed men from the Mount Street Club. They disappeared towards the middle…

Beautiful Landscapes of Ireland by Carsten Kreiger, with an introduction by Peter Harbison (The O’Brien Press, €9.99 / £8.20)

Holy Bible: NIV / New International Version, read by David Suchet, six MP3 CDs (Hodder & Stoughton, €50.00 / £39.99)

Celebrating the Eucharist: Sacrifice and Communion ed. Gerard Deighan (Smenos, €20.00 + p&p / £16.30 approx + p&p; from www.smenospublications.com) Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal, ed. Janet E. Rutherford and James O’Brien (Four Courts Press, €30 / £25)  I began thinking about this review on that recent Sunday when the two Popes were canonised.…

In My Room by Jim Lucey (Gill & Macmillan, €16.99 / £13.99)

The Three Visitors: The Story of Knock by Eleanor Gormally (Vertias €5.99 / £5)

Donal’s Mountain: How One Son Inspired a Nation by Fionnbar Walsh (Hachette Books Ireland, €12.99/£10.99)

This brief little book is a simply presented book with one simple aim, to make the word of God accessible and meaningful in the daily lives of his readers. A Dominican since 1959, he has served in many roles abroad and in Ireland, but is currently at the Biblical Institute in Limerick, where he is…