Cré na Cille / The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley (Yale University Press, £16.99)

News of the visions at Knock first came to the attention of the wider world through the medium of journalists anxious to report on what many thought might be an Irish Lourdes. This had an unfortunate outcome in many ways. Veteran journalist Andrew Dunlop, an Ulsterman, in his memoirs Fifty Years of Irish Journalism (Dublin,…

Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People’s Pope by Fr Michael Collins, featuring exclusive photography by Rodolfo Felici (Dorling Kindersley, €28.00)

J. Anthony Gaughan Here are two further biographies in the “16 Lives Series” dealing with the leading figures executed after the 1916 Rising, both subjects are among the less well-known of those whose died. Con Colbert was born on October 19, 1888 in Castlemahon, Newcastlewest. Soon afterwards his family moved to Athea, where he spent his early…

The Books Editor “At exactly 15 minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and…

Painted Butterflies: Memories of a Missionary   by Fr Christopher Fox   MHM (Choice Publishing, €14.95) The author is a Mill Hill priest who celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of his ordination last month. In this memoir he describes his experiences in Ireland, Britain and the USA; but the heart of the books deals with his…

Roots of Faith: A Journey of Hope by Fr Ray Flaherty and others (Headford Parish Committee, €20 plus €5 p+p, from the parish office, St Mary’s Church, Headford, Co. Galway; email: headfordchurch@gmail.com)

This year the summer school is being held from August 9-13 on the theme of ‘The French Connection: Ireland and France’. The school is held at Avondale House in Wicklow, the home of Parnell, now in State care, and all are welcome to attend. For details of the programme visit www.parnellsociety.com.    

Due to an editorial oversight during production, the publishing details of this title were omitted in the review in our issue of July 23. The Sublime Round Tower: An Iconic Call to Contemplative Prayer, by Kathleen Lynch, is published by Columba Press at €9.99. This little book of spirituality is inspired by the writings of…

The passing of the Rev. Prof. Sir Owen Chadwick at the great age of 99 has brought a remarkable career to a close. Owen Chadwick was one of the most distinguished historians of Christianity in the last 60 years or so, whose works have left a permanent impression on historians, theologians and general readers.   …