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)
Sidelights on Dublin’s long history
Category: Books
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)
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)
Good news for all
Where the Heart Is: How the Gospel Transforms Our Lives by Bishop Donal Murray (Veritas, €12.99)
Women of the Troubles
Richmond Barracks 1916: ‘We Were There’ — 77 Women of the Easter Rising edited by Mary McAuliffe and Liz Gillis (Dublin City Council Decade of Commemorations Series, Four Courts Press, €24.95)