The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket Island by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin, with Patricia Ahearn (The Collins Press, €12.99 / £10.50)
Peter Costello
A deep well of spirituality
The Writings of St Teresa of Avila: A Introduction by Eugene McCaffrey OCD ( €6.50 / £5.00 pb)
Over the sea to Iona
Iona: The Other Island words by Kenneth Steven, photographs by Iain Sarjeant (St Andrews Press, €18.99 / £14.99 pb)
Baby deaths were no secret to earlier governments
In light of the Tuam babies issue, Peter Costello consults the public record
The Jackie Kennedy Letters
Writing history about living people is a perilous trade
Seeking a true sense of community
Are We Together? Community Life in Action by David Gibson (Cluain Mhuire Press, €20.50 / $27.50 from Amazon.com)
A unique solution to unemployment
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…
Changing moods of Ireland
Beautiful Landscapes of Ireland by Carsten Kreiger, with an introduction by Peter Harbison (The O’Brien Press, €9.99 / £8.20)
The spoken word of God
Holy Bible: NIV / New International Version, read by David Suchet, six MP3 CDs (Hodder & Stoughton, €50.00 / £39.99)
Knock for young readers
The Three Visitors: The Story of Knock by Eleanor Gormally (Vertias €5.99 / £5)