Redemption Road: Grieving on the Camino

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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 112: Name and Nature: ‘Who do you say that I am?’

Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art ed. Janet McLean

The Life and Lens of Father Browne by E. E. O’Donnell

Eager to Love: the Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi by Richard Rohr OFM

Pope Francis: The Story of Our Pope by Ailís Travers, illustrated by Lir Mac Cárthaigh

Danger is Everywhere by Docter Noel Zone

Spiritualism must have reached its historic acme in the years between the wars, when such people as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were fervent missionaries for the belief. Historians have surmised that this was one outcome of the millions of lives lost in the Great War, and the inconsolable grief of those left behind. One senses…

We live these days in a scientific age which rejects miracles and deprives history of a metaphysical dimension. This view can be traced back in part to the writings of David Hume (pictured) the Scottish philosopher of the 18th Century, an age when Edinburgh regarded itself as "the Athens of the North"; it was the…