The Passion and the Cross: Daily Reading for Lent by Ronald Rolheiser  (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) The season before Christmas may seem an odd time to bring out a book for Lent, but publishers move in mysterious ways. This is the cheaper paperback edition of a book that appeared last year. The author is the…

“A Failed Political Entity”: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question 1945-1992 by Stephen Kelly (Merrion Press, €24.99 pb / €75.00 hb)

St Francis Uncensored by Patrick Noonan OFM   (Choice Publishing, €10.99; visit www.choicepublishing.ie) Since the election of the present Pope there has been an increase of interest in St Francis himself. But over the centuries the saint has become covered up with the sort of sentimental piety that obscures the real man and his associates,…

Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland’s Finest edited by Charles Lysaght (Times Books / HarperCollins, £12.99)

Open Hearts, Open Arms: Welcoming Migrants to Ireland by Alan Hilliard (Messenger Publications, €3.99)

Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court by James D. Zirin (Rowman and Littlefield. $28 – €26 approximately)

The World of Books

Atlantic Tabor: The Pilgrims of Croagh Patrick, text by Patrick Claffey, photographs by Tomasz Bereska and Tomasz Szustek (Liffey Press, €19.95)

Unleashing Demons: the Inside Story of Brexit by Craig Oliver (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99)

From Laois to Kerry by Michael Christopher Keane (Beechgrove, Ovens, Cork €20 + P&P; contact: mjagkeane@gmail.com).