Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)
Category: Books
Meeting ourselves as we really are
The Republic photographed by Seamus Murphy (Allen Lane, €32.00)
Europe and the centenaries of the Great Tragedies of 1916
With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself. The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…
The World of Books: A Muslim legend of dogs and Heaven
The relationship between faith and man’s best friend
White flags over Dublin’s streets
1916 Surrenders: Captain H. E. de Courcy-Wheeler’s Eye-Witness Account by Alex Findlater (Edited by A & A Farmar) Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, €11.99)
Recent books in brief
New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
Each one of us is called
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)
The many sides of an Irish intellectual
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)
Writers rereading the Rising
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Sidelights on Dublin’s long history
Heraldic Dublin – The Three Castles of Dublin: An Eclectic History of Dublin through the Evolution of the City’s Coat of Arms by Michael English (Four Courts Press for Dublin City Council, €29.95)