Preaching in Belfast, 1747-72 – A Selection of the Sermons of James Saurin ed. by Raymond Gillespie & Riobeard Ó Gallachóir (Four Courts Press, €49.50)

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Abandoned Churches of Ireland by Tarquin Blake (The Collins Press, €27.99) Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings, 1789-1915: Building on the Past by Niamh NicGhabhann (Four Courts Press, €55)

How the French think: an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people by Sudhir Hazareesingh (Allen Lane, £20)

ed. by Ronald A. Beers and others (Hodder and Stoughton, £29.99)

Activities Wise and Otherwise: The Career of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson 1898-1922 by Brendan O’Donoghue (Irish Academic Press, €29.99)

The death of Brian Friel at the age of 86 marks an epoch in Irish literature. Along with Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel was an Irish writer with an international reputation, who was never tempted into exile. Friel was one of the group of Ulster writers and critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, and…

Catholic Primary Education in a Pluralist Environment by Anne Hession (Veritas, €14.99)

To Live in the Love of God: A Guide to Prayer by parishioners of Kirkinriola Parish, ed. Fr P. Delargy  (Ballymena Parish Centre, £5.00) This book is an unusual effort by local people from an Ulster parish to answer the question: “Do you want to discover the truth and be a good person and make others…

Shackleton’s Boat: The story of the James Caird by Harding McGregor Dunnett (Collins Press, €12.99)