Womb with a Window: Ethical Reflections on the Personhood of the Unborn Through Scripture and Science by Msgr Dr Antony Perumayan (Shanway Press, £12.00; contact 15 Crumlin Road, Belfast, Antrim BT14 6AA; email infro@shanway.com; tel: Northern Ireland 028 9022 2070) The reverend author of this book is the National Co-ordinator of the Syro- Malabar Church…

Ampleforth College: The Emergence of Ampleforth College as the ‘Catholic Eaton’ by Peter Galliver (Gracewing, £12.99)   Ampleforth College in Yorkshire over the past centuries as often been called ‘the Catholic Eton’, though this title might well be disputed by those who went to Stonyhurst. However, this short book is subtitled ‘We must look to…

The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics edited by Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins (Cork University Press, €39.00/£19.95)   The many readers who would be interested in the theme of the American derived anthology above should also look out as well for the…

Christopher
 Moriarty   Woven Shades of Green: An anthology of Irish nature literature by Tim Wenzell (Bucknell University Press / distributed by Rutgers University Press, $US29.95/£24.95)   As one of the many writers on Irish nature who is not included in this anthology, I have to declare an interest. The preface indicates that the omission…

I Want Everything by Marta Bellavista, ed. by Emanuele Polverelli (Itaca Edizioni, Castel Bolognese, Italy, €15.00; contact e-mail: info@itacalibri.it) This is a collection of writings by a truly remarkable person. Marta Bellavista was born in Cesena in Emilia-Romagna in Italy on October 19, 1983. After classical studies she attended the Catholic University in Milan, where…

Well of Living Water: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman by Magdalen Lawler SND (Messenger Publications, €10.95) Connecting Lives: Interbelief Dialogue in Contemporary Ireland by Patricia Kiernan (Veritas, €17.99) The Samaritan woman at the well is a familiar figure, even to those whose memories of the gospels have grown dim. As Sister Lawler points out in…

Katie: Poems for the Young and Young at Heart by Gabriel Fitzmaurice (Salmon Poetry, €9.00) Only recently Kerry poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice was saying a farewell to poetry. Or so he said. Now comes a little volume, which many of his readers, and many others too, will glad he has decided to bring out as a…

Days of the Blackthorn: Faction Fighters of Kerry by Seán Moraghan (Mercier Press, €16.99) In the early part of the 19th Century especially, faction fighting was a feature of rural life throughout Munster. The Catholic clergy were unable to prevent it, despite their strenuous efforts, local magistrates turned a Nelson eye on it and some…

The Enchantment of Mammon: How Capitalism became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher (The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, $US39.95/£31.95) Frank
Litton This is a vitally important book, likely to attract considerable attention among critics and readers. I reckon it could have an impact similar to Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue back in 1997. Certainly…

St Thérèse of Lisieux in Scotland 2019   (The Bishops Conference of Scotland / Scottish Catholic Observer, €6.99 + €6.99 p&p. Order from books@sconews.co.uk, phone 0044-141-241-6106.  Arrangements are being made to distribute the book in Ireland.)   The tour of the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux in Ireland is still for devotees of the…