Studies Summer 2016. Special Issue: Freedom of Speech. How Far Can You Go? (Messenger Publications, €10.00)
Can we say what we like, when we like?
Category: Books
The little lessons of life are very important too
Peter Costello
Life Lessons: Fifty Things I Learned in My First Fifty Years by Patrick Madrid (Ignatius Press / Augustine Institute, US$16.95; also available as a eBook download; or by order from Veritas)
Plunkett – an enigmatic revolutionary
Enigmas of Sacrifice: A critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916 by W.J. McCormack (Michigan State University Press, €20.16 pb / €43.91hb)
Do evil and suffering serve a purpose for Christians?
Where is God in Suffering? by Brendan Purcell (Veritas, €12.99) God You’re Breaking My Heart: What is God’s Response to Suffering & Evil by Brian Grogan SJ (Messenger Publications, €9.99)
Draw your own conclusions to many-coloured Bible mysteries
The Heavens and the Earth: Colour your way through the Bible’s most beautiful Verses Created by Stu McLellan (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Cries from the rubble of the Rising
Voices from the Easter Rising, Ruán O’Donnell and Mícheál Ó hAodha (Merrion Press 2016)
An Ulster poet lost to sight
Louis MacNeice: In A Between World by Christopher J. Fauske (Irish Academic Press, €29.99pb / €70.00hb)
The World of Books
Paul Keenan
The pain and glory of the cathedrals
Aquatic odyssey yields an assortment of riches
Aubrey Malone
Finding Dory (G)
A vision of a Church looking to the future
The Church Always in Need of Reform by Gabriel Daly OSA (Dominican Publications, €19.99)