Teenagers Translated: How to Raise Happy Teens by Nancy and Naella Grew (Vermillion, €15.00 / £11.99)
Peter Costello
The mysteries of the Mass for familes and young people
It will be a familiar Sunday scene to many: the parents at Mass praying and participating, their children restless, bored and uninvolved in the service they attend. The congregation will be mostly older parishioners and couples with children. There will be few teenagers and almost no young adults. This indifference, this lack of interest will…
Varieties of faith
John Quinn will already be a familiar figure to many readers, from both his days with RTÉ, but also his previous publications including the popular Goodnight Ballivor, I’ll Sleep in Trim. This new book is a collection of encounters with well known figures around the country in very different areas of life. They were asked…
Trapped in our own privacy
We hear a great deal these days about the right to privacy. The European Court ruling on the matter of what can be carried by Google on the internet is only the latest point of controversy. Earlier claims that, for example, the police could not release the names of convicted criminals who had absconded or…
The folk life of old Limerick
Old Church Street: A Memoir of Limerick by Críostóir Ó Floinn (Original Writing, €15.00 + p&p / £5.23 Kindle edition)
The curiosities of Dublin
The World of Books
The last of his kind
The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket Island by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin, with Patricia Ahearn (The Collins Press, €12.99 / £10.50)
Over the sea to Iona
Iona: The Other Island words by Kenneth Steven, photographs by Iain Sarjeant (St Andrews Press, €18.99 / £14.99 pb)
Baby deaths were no secret to earlier governments
In light of the Tuam babies issue, Peter Costello consults the public record
A deep well of spirituality
The Writings of St Teresa of Avila: A Introduction by Eugene McCaffrey OCD ( €6.50 / £5.00 pb)