Massacre in West Cork: The Dunmanway and Ballygroman Killings by Barry Keane (Mercier Press, €19.99 / £16.99 – also available as an eBook).
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Noah’s flood and God’s covenant with man
In the history of biblical archaeology, as it developed during the Victorian era, no episode is more remarkable that the discovery made by George Smith of the British Museum in 1872. On a clay tablet from the royal library of Nineveh he deciphered a much older Mesopotamian version of the flood story familiar from the…
The common heritage of all Christians
Encountering God and Discovering our True Identity: Reflections on the First Readings of Cycles A, by John Littleton (Columba Books, €12.99/£10.99)
A ‘controversial’ sacrament
The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession, by John Cornwell (Profile Books, €20.99/£16.99)
Towards a Catholic reawakening
This pamphlet is adapted from a lecture which Dermot Lane, the retired president of the Mater Dei Institute, gave to a conference on religions and beliefs in primary education held at St Patrick’s College back in April 2013. He drew on some of the material in the Report on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary…
Educating in Faith
A Tale of Nine Centuries: The Story and Spirituality of the Le Chéile Schools Trust, by Úna Collins and Sean Goan (The Columba Press, €14.99)
A heartening tale
A new title from the popular writer Mitch Albom. The tale is one of residents in a Michigan township beginning to receive phone call from Heaven – echoes of Victorian spiritualism perhaps in another guise? – but Mitch Albom is a soul heartening tale in the style of his earlier title The Five People You…
A man and his trials
Terence O’Neill, by Marc Mulholland (Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times Series UCD Press)
Secrets of the interior castle
Teresa of Avila: Doctor of the Soul, by Peter Tyler (Bloomsbury / Continuum, £18.99 / €22.99)