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)

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The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, with John and Elizabeth Sherill  (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) This is a famous book, written with two American journalists, first published in 1971, which has already had wide circulation. However, it has been reissued now because it contains a description of life in Ravensbrück, one of the holocaust…

Father Browne’s Dublin Photographs 1925-1950 edited by E. E. O’Donnell SJ (Messenger Publications, €14.99)

The Blue Guitar by John Banville (Penguin Viking, £12.99)

The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke (Bodley Head, £16.99)