Peter CostelloCreationism is not a topic widely talked about in Ireland. It rarely intrudes into the public debate. But creationism presents both a false view of religion and of science. Seeming to reassure people it dangerously misleads them. It will be recalled that when the visitor centre at the Giant’s Causeway was opened a few years…
Category: Reviews
California falls prey to ‘the big one’
Aubrey MaloneSan Andreas (12A)
Echoes of a long lost way of life
Courtney McGrailThe Last Blasket King: Pádraig Ó Catháin, An Rí by Gerald Hayes, with Eliza Kane (The Collins Press, €12.99)
The Scriptures in the modern world
Holy Bible: New International Version large print edition (Hodder & Stoughton, €28.99) God’s Smuggler: One Man’s Mission to Change the World by Brother Andrew with John and Elizabeth Sherrill (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
Exported glory
A visit to the Wolfsonian Museum to see Harry Clarke’s ‘Geneva’ window
The garden of hope is blooming
Get Your Hopes Up! Expect Something Good to Happen Every Day by Joyce Meyer (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
The modernisation of the world from differing perspectives
Ten books that caused controversy in their analyses of the Middle Ages are put under the spotlight on medievalists.net. Stephen Greenlat’s award-winning 2011 book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which addresses the end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Renaissance, is identified as a book disliked by medievalists “partially because…
Fatima: What happened afterwards
A Pathway under the Gaze of Mary: Biography of Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart O.C.D. by the Carmel of Saint Teresa, Coimbra, Portugal (World Apostolate of Fatima, €25; available from publishers at www.bluearmy.com )
The inner truth of Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater: The Mystery Hymn by Desmond Fisher (Gracewing, €9.99)
On the track of Irish monks in Europe
On the Pathways of the World / Sulle Strade del Mondo by Enzo Farrinella (Edizioni Casa Italia, €15.00; contact enzo.farinella@gmail.com)