The BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland by Robert Savage (Manchester University Press, £70)
Category: Reviews
A potpourri of July movie releases
Aubrey MaloneThe silly season is here and film-makers are doing their best to drag you in from the sun. Here are some of the more high profile releases now showing in your local cinema: Faith of Our Fathers (PG) In 1969 in Vietnam, a man with a great faith went into battle with a religious sceptic…
Galway Film Fleadh
If you’re in or around the City of Tribes between July 7 and 12 you should check out the Galway Film Fleadh. Now in its 27th year, Ireland’s leading film festival has a gala line-up this time. The highlight, for me, has to be the Garret Daly/Martina McGlynn feature A Nightingale Falling (Town Hall, July 9). I saw this on RTÉ…
A fascinating tome on Fenian leaders
Courtney McGrailConspirators: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Revolutionary Underground by Shane Kenna (Mercier Press, €14.99) A remarkable rogue’s gallery of revolutionaries, members of the IRB and Fenian movements, some of whom developed into democratic leaders. But it is as well to remember that not all the Fenians were heroes by any means. Money and murder left…
Poetry in motion with a unique vision
Peter CostelloEpic by Desmond Egan (Goldsmith Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, €15.00pb)
Racy of the soil
Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History by James Quinn (UCD Press, €30 pb)
The World of Books
Ronsard’s rose garden is a pure delight Stratford-upon-Avon, especially in summer, is one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions: the crowds come not to see the Royal Shakespeare Company at the theatre, but the birth place of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s Cottage. The theatre with its celebrated productions is a truly vital place –…
Reaction on the web to Laudato Si ranges from the bizarre to the sublime
Few reactions to the new papal encyclical have been as bizarre as how voiceofthefamily.info/wordpress said it was “deeply concerned by the omission from the encyclical letter Laudato Si of a reaffirmation of the Church’s teaching against contraception and on procreation as the primary end of the sexual act”. The group claims the Pope’s failure to…
Slickly packaged parable about the importance of self-sacrifice
The Longest Ride (12A)
Some summer reading
Books Editor With the fine weather here at last thoughts turn to holidays, and thoughts of holidays summon up the idea of some leisurely reading. Here are some suggestions for books which might provide some interesting and out of the way reading for those bored with best-sellers. The Land of Shades by Charles Lyte (Xlibris;…