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…

The Shaping of Modern Ireland – A Centenary Assessment edited by Eugenio Biagini and Daniel Mulhall (Irish Academic Press, €22.50pb/€45.00hb).

Get Crafty by Ali Coghlan (Mercier Press, €14.99)

Where the Heart Is: How the Gospel Transforms Our Lives by Bishop Donal Murray (Veritas, €12.99)

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)

Revelation Road: One Man’s Journey to the Heart of the Apocalypse and Back Again by Nick Page (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)

The Way We Die Now by Seamus O’Mahony (Head of Zeus, £14.99)

The Astronomer & the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight for his mother by Ulinka Rublack (Oxford University Press, £20.00)

The World of Books

Lord of the Files: Working for the Government, An Anthology edited by Michael Mulreany and Denis O’Brien, revised edition (Institute of Public Administration, €35.00)