The recent attacks on young men with intellectual disabilities in Cork and in Dublin, have received great deal of media attention, and rightly so. But the true nature of what “learning disabilities means” often escapes them. Ruth Chipperfield will enlighten them. This is truly the story of an exceptional man, her brother Gordon Cochran, exceptional…

Give Dust a Tongue: A Faith & Poetry Memoir by John F. Deane (The Columba Press, €19.99)

Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity by Anthony Esolen (Saint Benedict Press, US$ 14.95; www.SaintBenedictPress.com )

Dying for the Cause: Kerry’s Republican Dead by Tim Horgan (Mercier Press, €35.00)

World of books by the books editor

A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of 1916 selected by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald (O’Brien Press, €14.99)

The Landscape of Clonmacnoise by John Feehan (Offaly County Council, €45; Heritage Office, Offaly County Council, Charleville Road, Tullamore, Co. Offaly; heritage@offalycoco.ie)

Books Editor   The library in Trinity College has bought a highly significant early 14th Century manuscript produced at St Mary’s Cistercian Abbey in Dublin. Written out on velum, it was created some time after 1304, but passed into private hands at the dissolution of the monastery under Henry VIII, and had been lost sight…

Hidden in Christ: Living as God’s Beloved by James Bryan Smith (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99)

Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle by Peter Stanford (Hodder & Stoughton, £20.00)