Anthony Redmond Mother Teresa was being  interviewed on a particular occasion on TV and there was a break for advertisements for various inessential, unimportant things. “I see that Christ is needed in television studios,” she muttered. Malcolm Muggeridge said about her, “she sees in each sorrowing, suffering human being neither a body surplus to a population…

Sean Ryan Anthologies are a great way to be introduced to a writer, as the editor’s job is to highlight the best of the author/columnist/essayist within the pages of a single book. In this case, it is the sermons of Australian Cardinal George Pell, and he has been well served by his editor, Tess Livingstone, who…

J. Anthony Gaughan The GPO is the nerve centre of our postal system. That system can be traced back to the political and military turmoil of the 16th and 17th centuries when communication became vital to the English policy of aggrandisement in Ireland. Then in the 1640s, Evan Vaughan, the postmaster in Dublin, established a staging system along the…

Periodicals and Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland ed. by Mark O’Brien and Felix M. Larkin (Four Courts Press, €55.00/£43.70)

In this large album, Galway historian Cormac Ó Comhraí attempts to mingle the story of Ireland’s involvement with the Great War in the wider world and the course of events, often moving in other directions, back in Ireland itself. His research has been assiduous, and he has collected many unusual, unknown or forgotten images of…

ed. Harry Bohan and Brian Callanan (Veritas, €9.99/£8.49)

by Jonathan Irwin with Emily Hourican (Mercier Press, €16.99/£13.50)

16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions by Anne-Marie Ryan (Mercier Press, €12.99/£10.25)

by Rónán Johnston (Goodnewsbooks.net/What’s Your Story, price not supplied)

The Ongoing Present: A Critical Look at the Society and World in Which I Grew Up