In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Writers rereading the Rising
Category: Books
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)
Real life at the local level
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)
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)
Ireland’s holy places of pilgrimage
Courtney McGrailWells, Graves and Statues: Exploring the Heritage and Culture of Pilgrimage in Medieval and Modern Cork City by Louise Nugent and Richard Scriven (Create Space Independent Publishing, €13.50)
No punches pulled in this reflection on Irish Catholicism and the Fifth Commandment
Violence, Politics and Catholicism in Ireland by Oliver P. Rafferty SJ (Four Courts Press, €45)
Deceptive adaptions are such a turn-off
Peter CostelloWorld of Books
News of the late lamented Bible society shop
Many serious readers of religious books, both historical and theological, from all Christian traditions, will have lamented the recent sudden overnight closure of the National Bible Society ‘Bestseller book shop’ (pictured) at 41 Dawson Street, Dublin, in which (so I understood) the Catholic Hierarchy also had a share. The closure was never explained to the…
A backward look at the men who made us
The Shaping of Modern Ireland – A Centenary Assessment edited by Eugenio Biagini and Daniel Mulhall (Irish Academic Press, €22.50pb/€45.00hb).
All done by hand!
Erin FoxGet Crafty by Ali Coghlan (Mercier Press, €14.99)