Democracy and Media Decadence, by John Keane (Cambridge University Press, €21.58 pb / £17.99)
Peter Costello
The Other Side of the Story
Unheard Story: Dublin Archdiocese and The Murphy Report, by Pádraig McCarthy (Londubh Books, €14.99 / £17.99; ISBN 9781907535352)
Marking Twelfth Night
This week has seen the passing of Twelfth Night, on the eve of the Epiphany, the feast celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the birthplace of Jesus. Traditionally this marked, not so much the realisation of Jesusís divinity, as the end of the long winter season, the first tremor of spring perhaps, the…
The year that was: 1983
Examining the National Archives
A wrong-headed view of revisionism
Robert Perry, Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics (Ashgate Publishing £49.50)
St Nicholas, the Christmas saint for all seasons
Who was the real St Nicholas?
Books of the Year
Looking back over the past year of their reading and reviewing some of our regular contributors have selected what seem to them to be the best reading of 2013, a varied and wide-ranging choice.
Christmas books
Peter Costello examines the season’s offerings
Christmas books for children
Peter Costello looks at some offerings for younger readers.
Religious books for children
Christmas, like Easter, is a season of the year when parents and relatives make an effort to buy children something religious, such as the story of the Nativity or a life of Christ. It would be easy to recommend some books on the Nativity such as Brian Wildsmith's now classic books A Christmas Story with…