Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…
Category: Reviews
When ‘The King’ battled drugs for ‘Tricky Dick’
Elvis and Nixon (PG)
Brexit for breakfast, dinner and tea
Brendan O’Regan is left ‘as shocked as anyone’ in the wake of the surprise victory of the Leave Campaign
Catholic Ireland’s last martyr
Saint Oliver Plunkett: Journey to Sainthood by Tommy Burns (St Oliver Plunkett for Peace and Reconciliation Committee, €10.00)
The lively life of an influential and marvellous book
C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography by George M. Marsden (Princeton University Press, £16.95)
Surviving Belsen
I Was a Boy in Belsen by Tomi Reichental (O’Brien Press, €11.99)
What Little Fox learned about life
The Curious Fox by Ross McDonagh, illustrated by Conor M. O’Brien (Veritas, €8.99 / £6.99)
Voices of reason after Brexit vote
June 24, ‘the morning after the night before’ in terms of the Brexit vote across Britain, prompted and continues to prompt reams of newsprint and online commentary as to the true implications of the country’s historic move. The plethora of competing reactions at this point is made possible of course by the very real uncertainty…
Recent books in brief
The Gaze of Love by Ruth Patterson (Veritas, €14.99) Ruth Patterson is an Ulster Presbyterian minister long associated with the Restoration Ministries, who have worked in the North as well as elsewhere since the 1980s, in a non-denominational way to promote not just peace and reconciliation, but also healing. But the key to this healing…
Revolutionary times in the Kingdom of Kerry
Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising: A Centenary Record edited by Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe, Owen O’Shea (Irish Historical Publications, €25 pb / €35 hb)