Star Trek Beyond (12A)
Category: Reviews
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Maggie’s Plan (15A)
Garden paths and secret side-lines
I don’t often watch garden makeover programmes, but when I do I’m usually impressed. On Tuesday of last week I enjoyed Love Your Garden (ITV/UTV). In this series presenter Alan Titchmarch does makeovers for people with special needs in the broadest sense. Last week it was the turn of Hari Budha Maga, a former Gurkha…
Towards new ways of Christian living
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
Joyce’s real Dubliners
The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Biographical Guide by Vivien Igoe (University College Dublin Press, €40.00hb)
The Rebels and the Law
After the Rising: Soldiers, lawyers and trials of the Irish Revolution by Seán Enright (Merrion Press, €19.99)
The World of Books
After writing recently about the Battle of Verdun and the literature of the Great War, I decided that as the anniversary of the Somme would be well marked by State and media, no reference to it would be needed here. But my mind has been changed by the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into…
Questioning received truths about the nation
Irish Adventures In Nation-Building by Bryan Fanning (Manchester University Press, £18.99)
Liturgists in London seek to share a sense of direction
Predictably, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s comments at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London have met with widespread debate and even heated disagreement online, so much so that Durban’s Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has tweeted from his @CardinalNapier account: “Cardinal Sarah addresses a meeting in London on subject no one has been consulted on, and everyone is…