Memoirs of an Old Warrior: Jamie Moynihanís fight for Irish freedom 1916-1923

Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-86 by James H. Murphy

Eager to Love: the Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi by Richard Rohr OFM

Pope Francis: The Story of Our Pope by Ailís Travers, illustrated by Lir Mac Cárthaigh

Place names are so central to issues of identity and rejection that they cause trouble all around the world

Danger is Everywhere by Docter Noel Zone

Francis Browne has been best known to the public as the extraordinary photographer who took the last pictures aboard the doomed Titanic – he had the luck, or perhaps was given the grace – to alight at Queenstown (Cobh) before she began her final trajectory across the Atlantic. But Fr Browne SJ, also had another…

By J. Anthony Gaughan It is often stated that there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. On reflection and taking account of the human condition one realises that this is a truism. But there are successful marriages. In this timely book John Cogavin provides advice, cautions and suggestions to enable couples of all ages to enjoy such marriages.…

Spiritualism must have reached its historic acme in the years between the wars, when such people as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were fervent missionaries for the belief. Historians have surmised that this was one outcome of the millions of lives lost in the Great War, and the inconsolable grief of those left behind. One senses…

We live these days in a scientific age which rejects miracles and deprives history of a metaphysical dimension. This view can be traced back in part to the writings of David Hume (pictured) the Scottish philosopher of the 18th Century, an age when Edinburgh regarded itself as "the Athens of the North"; it was the…