“Ancient Sweet Donoughmore”: Life in an Irish rural parish to 1900 by Gerard O’Rourke (Redmond Grove Publications, €35.00 including p+p)
Peter Costello
What we really gain from life
It is As it Is: a True Story of Hope Loss and Friendship by Malina Stahre-Godycka (Veritas, €14.99)
The changing Christmas card and seasonal shifts
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Brief lives of our truly eminent
Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland’s Finest edited by Charles Lysaght (Times Books / HarperCollins, £12.99)
Croagh Patrick: A mountain at the heart of the world
Atlantic Tabor: The Pilgrims of Croagh Patrick, text by Patrick Claffey, photographs by Tomasz Bereska and Tomasz Szustek (Liffey Press, €19.95)
Heavenly heroes of the Faith
The Saints: A Short History by Simon Yarrow (Oxford University Press, £10.99)
The Wexford carols: the music of worship
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New lessons in purpose of education
Catholic Education in the Light of Vatican II and Laudato Si’ by Dermot A. Lane (Veritas, €7.99)
Light in darkest Africa
Uganda: My Mission by Fr Damien Grimes MHM (Published by the author, Llanwrst, Wales, €9.40; available on Amazon.co.uk)
The still small voices of poetry
The Poet’s Quest for God: an anthology of 21st Century poems of faith, doubt and wonder ed. by Fr Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift, with Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton Evans, with an introduction by Dr Ewan Fernie (Eyewear Publishing / Signature Books, £24.99. Distributed by Central Books in the UK and Ireland.)