1916 Surrenders: Captain H. E. de Courcy-Wheeler’s Eye-Witness Account by Alex Findlater (Edited by A & A Farmar) Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, €11.99)
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Recent books in brief
New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
Each one of us is called
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)
The many sides of an Irish intellectual
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)
Writers rereading the Rising
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Sidelights on Dublin’s long history
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)
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
Wells, 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
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