I picked a good week to dip in to iWitness, RTÉ 1’s nightly reflection programme, described as ‘the spirit of Ireland, one voice and one minute at a time’. Bro. Anthony from Glenstal Abbey started the week with a poetic reflection on God’s work in Nature. Working in the forest he found that God speaks…
The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)
I’ll Drop You A Line: A Life With David Marcus by Ita Daly (Londubh Books. €14.99)
Signatories edited by Lucy Collins (UCD Press, € 20.00)
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…
I Was a Boy in Belsen by Tomi Reichental (O’Brien Press, €11.99)
The Curious Fox by Ross McDonagh, illustrated by Conor M. O’Brien (Veritas, €8.99 / £6.99)
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…
Elvis and Nixon (PG)
Brendan O’Regan is left ‘as shocked as anyone’ in the wake of the surprise victory of the Leave Campaign
Brendan O’Regan
Peter Costello
Aubrey Malone