The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout (Simon & Schuster, €9.99/£7.99)

by Jonathan Irwin with Emily Hourican (Mercier Press, €16.99/£13.50)

In this large album, Galway historian Cormac Ó Comhraí attempts to mingle the story of Ireland’s involvement with the Great War in the wider world and the course of events, often moving in other directions, back in Ireland itself. His research has been assiduous, and he has collected many unusual, unknown or forgotten images of…

by Rónán Johnston (Goodnewsbooks.net/What’s Your Story, price not supplied)

The Ongoing Present: A Critical Look at the Society and World in Which I Grew Up

The Lent Factor: Forty Companions for the Forty days of Lent

Parenting When Separated: Helping Your Children Cope and Thrive

Whenever the question of married priests, women in the Church or even women priests comes up, I often think of the wife of a Church of Ireland bishop, who remarked to me: “I often wonder about the enthusiasm of some Catholics for women in the Church. It’s not much fun being married to a priest.”…

For many people Viking Dublin and Protestant Georgian Dublin, thanks largely to the fierce controversies over the years about their preservation, are more familiar than the long intervening centuries of medieval Dublin, when the capital might be said to have been a truly Catholic though English speaking city. This book is a notable attempt to bridge…

His encounters with Christianity is one of the mysteries of Marco Polo