Patrick Pearse: A Life in Pictures

The Boy in the Bubble: Education as Personal Relationship

The Pink Ribbon Path

Peter Cotsello looks at elements of Halloween

The Scent of Roses by Colm Keane (Capel Island, €14.99 / £12.15)

Tony Ryan: Ireland’s Aviator, by Richard Aldous (Gill & Macmillan, €24.99/£21.99)

Channels of Prayer by Innocent Chibueze Ezeonyeasi (St Paul’s Publishing, €11.50/£9.99)

In these three books the Pontiff Emeritus continues to provide insights for the faithful, through a series of reflections.  The most interesting of the three is perhaps learning to believe in which Benedict calls on all the faithful, especially those going through difficult moments in their life or belief, to continue their journal, with what…

Pam Rhodes will be familiar to many as the presenter for many years of Songs of Praise. One of the most genuinely popular religious programmes on television. But she is also the author of some five novels. This book however is the first in a new series, relating the chronicles of a small English town.…

Rediscovering St Patrick: A new theory of origins by Marcus Losack (Columba Press, €16.99 / £14.50)