Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Winter 2014/15

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…

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

The Catholic Guide to Depression by Aaron Kheriaty MD, with Fr John Cihak (Sophia Institute Press, £12.94 print, £7.46 e-book)

Walking with Jesus: the Heart of the Christian Life by Pope Francis, edited by Giuliano Vigini (Dalton, Longman & Todd, 9.99) There is a Chinese saying “the longest journey begins with the first step”. The idea of the journey, or rather, the walk, is according to the editor of this book at the heart of…

Pope Francis: Life and Revolution, by Elisabetta Piqué foreword by Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley OFM Cap. (Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.99)

Aengus Finucane: In the Heart of Concern by Deirdre Purcell (New Island hb, €24.99)

Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink by Polly Toynbee and David Walker (Guardian Books with Faber and Faber, £9.99)