Peter CostelloIt is As it Is: a True Story of Hope Loss and Friendship by Malina Stahre-Godycka (Veritas, €14.99)
Category: Reviews
In the heart of rural Cork
“Ancient Sweet Donoughmore”: Life in an Irish rural parish to 1900 by Gerard O’Rourke (Redmond Grove Publications, €35.00 including p+p)
Ruth is stranger than fiction in sentimental drama
Aubrey MaloneA United Kingdom (12A)
Emotional intensity reigns in The Missing
Brendan O’ReganAfter the recent political earthquake and the ongoing aftershocks it’s a relief to get back to some fictional drama. The Missing (BBC One Wednesday nights) is the second season of this mystery series about people going missing in the most criminal of ways. The plot is complex and there’s lots of time shifting between…
A new look at Catholic Emancipation
Courtney McGrailThe Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England by Ambrose Macaulay (Four Courts Press, €40.00)
The Brexit fallout – a battle won, a future lost?
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman (William Collins, £25)
A man of ideas at Montrose
Creating Space: The Education of a Broadcaster by Andy O’Mahony (Liffey Press, €22.95)
The changing Christmas card and seasonal shifts
The World of Books
Squandering a pro-life movement for a tawdry triumph
Among the many depressing pieces published in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s US Presidential election was one at ncregister.com entitled ‘Trump’s Triumph powered by religious voters’. “The next days will allow for careful study of the numbers, but the exit polls found initially that Trump may have carried the largest…
Plaintive tug-of-love drama exudes power
The Light Between Oceans (12A)
