Newman’s Oxford: The places and buildings associated with Saint John Henry Newman during his years in Oxford 1816-1846 by Fr Jerome Bertram FSA (Gracewing, £6.99) The canononisation of John Henry Newman will open the way to many more popular accounts of parts of his life. In this very appealing brochure Fr Jerome Bertram, a priest…
Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond: Influence, Process and Afterlife since 1945 Lisa Godson & Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, £44.95/$US80.00) This collection of 11 articles derives from a conference held in Newman House in Dublin back in 2014. Alas, for the general reader concerned with religious architecture it is written in the…
Womb with a Window: Ethical Reflections on the Personhood of the Unborn Through Scripture and Science by Msgr Dr Antony Perumayan (Shanway Press, £12.00; contact 15 Crumlin Road, Belfast, Antrim BT14 6AA; email infro@shanway.com; tel: Northern Ireland 028 9022 2070) The reverend author of this book is the National Co-ordinator of the Syro- Malabar Church…
Ampleforth College: The Emergence of Ampleforth College as the ‘Catholic Eaton’ by Peter Galliver (Gracewing, £12.99) Ampleforth College in Yorkshire over the past centuries as often been called ‘the Catholic Eton’, though this title might well be disputed by those who went to Stonyhurst. However, this short book is subtitled ‘We must look to…
The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics edited by Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins (Cork University Press, €39.00/£19.95) The many readers who would be interested in the theme of the American derived anthology above should also look out as well for the…
Well of Living Water: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman by Magdalen Lawler SND (Messenger Publications, €10.95) Connecting Lives: Interbelief Dialogue in Contemporary Ireland by Patricia Kiernan (Veritas, €17.99) The Samaritan woman at the well is a familiar figure, even to those whose memories of the gospels have grown dim. As Sister Lawler points out in…
Katie: Poems for the Young and Young at Heart by Gabriel Fitzmaurice (Salmon Poetry, €9.00) Only recently Kerry poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice was saying a farewell to poetry. Or so he said. Now comes a little volume, which many of his readers, and many others too, will glad he has decided to bring out as a…
St Thérèse of Lisieux in Scotland 2019 (The Bishops Conference of Scotland / Scottish Catholic Observer, €6.99 + €6.99 p&p. Order from books@sconews.co.uk, phone 0044-141-241-6106. Arrangements are being made to distribute the book in Ireland.) The tour of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux in Ireland is still for devotees of the…
The World of Books Back in the 1950s, when such a case was less common, an Irish poet was teaching a course on modern Ireland literature in a US university. He chose James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) as the text for the semester. By the time he was…
St Columbanus: Selected writings compiled by Alexander O’Hara, introduction by Fr Sean McDonagh (Veritas, €9.99 / £7.25) Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe edited by Alexander O’Hara (Oxford University Press, £68.00) Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century by Alexander O’Hara (Oxford University Press,…