‘Challenging’ was the description that most came to mind as I watched Beyond Redemption? A Would You Believe? Special, last Thursday night on RTÉ 1. After years of concentration on the victims of sexual abuse this programme focused on the perpetrators and what could be done to support them in such a way that they…
Category: Reviews
The extraordinary spirit and soul of Jean Vanier
The Gospel of John, The Gospel of Relationship Jean Vanier (Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.99 pb)
A strong leader in a time of Irish turbulence
Thomas Hussey (1746-1803): Bishop of Waterford & Lismore by Liam Murphy (Kingdom Books, €20)
Fessing up to financial disaster
Hell at the Gates: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Financial Downfall by John Lee and Daniel McConnell (Mercier Press, €16.99)
Dylan’s Nobel prize awards many cultures
The World of Books
Heavenly heroes of the Faith
The Saints: A Short History by Simon Yarrow (Oxford University Press, £10.99)
One writer’s capital
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, with photographs by Paul Joyce (Hachette Ireland, €24.99)
Cork’s man of 1916
16 Lives: Tomas Kent by Meda Ryan (O’Brien Press, €14.99)
Sweet Cork of Thee
On the Banks: Cork City in Poems and Songs edited by Alannah Hopkin (Collins Press, €17.99)
Old reliables… and perhaps not so reliables
An occasional pleasure offered by the internet is when a blog one had previously liked but thought defunct splutters unexpectedly into life, as if to say “I’m not quite dead!” Such revivals are rarely sustained, but they’re welcome for all that. It was, as such, a delight to see valledarurni.blogspot.ie rear its head last week,…