Ever Seen a Fat Fox? Human Obesity Explored by Mike Gibney (UCD Press, €20.00)

Naturama: Open Your Eyes to the Wonders of Irish Nature by Michael Fewer, with illustrations by Melissa Doran (Gill Books, €22.99)

The Gaze of Love by Ruth Patterson (Veritas, €14.99)  Ruth Patterson is an Ulster Presbyterian minister long associated with the Restoration Ministries, who have worked in the North as well as elsewhere since the 1980s, in a non-denominational way to promote not just peace and reconciliation, but also healing.  But the key to this healing…

Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising: A Centenary Record edited by Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe, Owen O’Shea (Irish Historical Publications, €25 pb / €35 hb)

James Joyce’s talented cousin

Fasting and Feasting: Radio Reflections on Christmas and Easter by Aidan Mathews (Veritas, €12.99)

Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)

The Republic photographed by Seamus Murphy (Allen Lane, €32.00)

With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself.  The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…

The relationship between faith and man’s best friend