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)

The World of Books

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

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)

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

A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s