Eva Gore Booth: An Image of Such Politics by Sonja Tiernan (Manchester University Press, £17.99)

Saint Columbanus Selected Writings compiled by Alexander O’Hara, foreword by Mary McAleese (Veritas, €6.99 /£7.99)

The World of Books

Latin Psalter Manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library

A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Winter 2014/15

The Papacy in the Modern World by Frank J. Coppa (Reaktion Books, £20.00)

16 Lives: Éamonn Ceannt by Mary Gallagher (O’Brien Press, €12.99)

Over Our Heads by Andrew Fox (Penguin, £12.99)

The other week at the Trinity College Books sale, one of the high holidays for Irish books lovers, I picked up a book published in 1935 – the whole purpose of such a sale is to enable people like myself to rediscover older books as an escape from the tidal waves of new ones that…