Priesthood Today: Ministry in a Changing Church ed. by Eamon Conway (Veritas, €19.99 / £16.99)
Peter Costello
Irish dance and the music of time
The Irish Dancing: Cultural Politics and Identities, 1900-2000 by Barbara O’Connor (Cork University Press, €39.00/£32.00)
A ‘controversial’ sacrament
The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession, by John Cornwell (Profile Books, €20.99/£16.99)
Towards a Catholic reawakening
This pamphlet is adapted from a lecture which Dermot Lane, the retired president of the Mater Dei Institute, gave to a conference on religions and beliefs in primary education held at St Patrick’s College back in April 2013. He drew on some of the material in the Report on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary…
The common heritage of all Christians
Encountering God and Discovering our True Identity: Reflections on the First Readings of Cycles A, by John Littleton (Columba Books, €12.99/£10.99)
A heartening tale
A new title from the popular writer Mitch Albom. The tale is one of residents in a Michigan township beginning to receive phone call from Heaven – echoes of Victorian spiritualism perhaps in another guise? – but Mitch Albom is a soul heartening tale in the style of his earlier title The Five People You…
A man and his trials
Terence O’Neill, by Marc Mulholland (Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times Series UCD Press)
Secrets of the interior castle
Teresa of Avila: Doctor of the Soul, by Peter Tyler (Bloomsbury / Continuum, £18.99 / €22.99)
Unfolding history observed
Joe Carroll As the editor warns the reader, this book is not “a shadow history of Ireland since 1922 covering all major events and phenomena through the lens of contemporary journalism” but it is probably unbeatable for showing how Ireland has changed in that time. In ‘The Taking of Cork’ in August 1922 written by…
The hurlers on the ditch
The GAA and Radio Éireann 1926-2010: The story of the commentators who broadcast Gaelic Games, by Patrick P. Guthrie (Gemini International).