Courtney McGrailFive Anti-Catholic Myths: Slavery, Crusades, Inquisition, Galileo, Holocaust by Gerard M. Verschuuren (Angelico Press, £11.50; ISBN-13: 978-1621381280)
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Ulster’s troubled vision of itself
The BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland by Robert Savage (Manchester University Press, £70)
A fascinating tome on Fenian leaders
Conspirators: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Revolutionary Underground by Shane Kenna (Mercier Press, €14.99) A remarkable rogue’s gallery of revolutionaries, members of the IRB and Fenian movements, some of whom developed into democratic leaders. But it is as well to remember that not all the Fenians were heroes by any means. Money and murder left…
Poetry in motion with a unique vision
Peter CostelloEpic by Desmond Egan (Goldsmith Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, €15.00pb)
Racy of the soil
Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History by James Quinn (UCD Press, €30 pb)
The World of Books
Ronsard’s rose garden is a pure delight Stratford-upon-Avon, especially in summer, is one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions: the crowds come not to see the Royal Shakespeare Company at the theatre, but the birth place of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s Cottage. The theatre with its celebrated productions is a truly vital place –…
Some summer reading
Books Editor With the fine weather here at last thoughts turn to holidays, and thoughts of holidays summon up the idea of some leisurely reading. Here are some suggestions for books which might provide some interesting and out of the way reading for those bored with best-sellers. The Land of Shades by Charles Lyte (Xlibris;…
Dublin hostelry with a history
Mulligans: Grand Old Pub of Poolbeg Street Declan Dunne (Mercier Press, €14.99)
W. B. Yeats and his search of a miracle
This year the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats is being celebrated with a wide range of events and media occasions. Yeats is one of those poets that school anthologies have made familiar, and yet remain strangely powerful in their resonances. Here are some thoughts on a man who is arguably Ireland’s…
Recent books in brief
A Life to Live: Awakening to God’s Abiding Presence by Jim O’Connell MHM, foreword by Liam Lawton (Columba Press, €14.99) Some years ago, our reviewer, Angela MacNamara, wrote of an earlier book of Fr O’Connell’s that “it is as though someone is taking one’s hand and enabling one to face the real world of God…