Michael Collins Himself by Chrissy Osborne (Mercier Press, €14.99)
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A remarkable book with a vision for the future
The Chain that Binds the Earth by Seán O’Conaill (Author House, £15.95; ISBN: 9781504942287)
Ireland’s treasured and Christian past in the face of hostility and threats
Treasures of Irish Christianity III ed. Salvador Ryan (Veritas, €19.99)
World of Books
Books Editor The other week our reviewer discussed how Mártin Ó Cadhain, in writing his celebrated novel Cré na Cille, resorted to creating new words in Irish to express his meaning. In this he had many precedents, such as William Shakespeare. But words are odd things. Recently it was reported that the rapper Eminem has the…
Recent books in brief
Studies An Irish Quarterly Review (Messenger Publications, €10.00; €45.00 for a year; visit www.studiesirishreview.ie for more information) This summer edition of one of the country’s most thoughtful journals focuses on the Great War, in an issue subtitled “The Pity of War 1914-1818”. These authors cover a range of issues from the philosophical considerations of Heather…
The Jewish blood libel in history
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Original Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose (Oxford University Press, £16.99)
Perhaps not a Nobel novel
Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley (Yale University Press, £16.99)
Knock Shrine in literature
News of the visions at Knock first came to the attention of the wider world through the medium of journalists anxious to report on what many thought might be an Irish Lourdes. This had an unfortunate outcome in many ways. Veteran journalist Andrew Dunlop, an Ulsterman, in his memoirs Fifty Years of Irish Journalism (Dublin,…
Francis’ papacy recorded in a book of quite magificent photography
Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People’s Pope by Fr Michael Collins, featuring exclusive photography by Rodolfo Felici (Dorling Kindersley, €28.00)
More on the Martyrs of Easter Week 1916
J. Anthony Gaughan Here are two further biographies in the “16 Lives Series” dealing with the leading figures executed after the 1916 Rising, both subjects are among the less well-known of those whose died. Con Colbert was born on October 19, 1888 in Castlemahon, Newcastlewest. Soon afterwards his family moved to Athea, where he spent his early…