Praying with St Teresa of Avila by Jerome Lantry, OCD (Teresian Press, €7.00)
Category: Reviews
The Evangelical view of marriage
Who Owns Marriage? A Conversation about Religion, Government, Marriage, and civil Society ed. by Nick Park (Evangelical Association of Ireland, € 9.99)
Disasters on the home front in WWI
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a disaster on the Kent marshes by Brian Dillon (Penguin Books, £18.99)
Laying claim to Blake’s poetry
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Walking back to happiness
Walking the Camino along the north shore of Spain to Santiago de Compostela has become perhaps the most active pilgrim route in the world. All kinds of people undertake the excursion, not all of them Christians by any means. This very personal book is an account of one such by a Catholic woman from Wexford,…
Günter Grass (1927 – 2015)
With the death of Günter Grass, the author of The Tin Drum, an epoch of German literature comes to a close. Born in the Free City of Danzig, in what is now a symbolic part of Poland, Grass was reared a Catholic. Though he ceased in adulthood to be a church-goer, his upbringing marked all…
An exceptional man
The recent attacks on young men with intellectual disabilities in Cork and in Dublin, have received great deal of media attention, and rightly so. But the true nature of what “learning disabilities means” often escapes them. Ruth Chipperfield will enlighten them. This is truly the story of an exceptional man, her brother Gordon Cochran, exceptional…
Highlighting Ireland’s forgotten heroes
A few times a year, RTÉ produces an excellent documentary and last week we got another one. Gallipoli – Ireland’s Forgotten Heroes (RTÉ One) was a personal journey for presenter David Davin-Power, whose grandfather fought in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of World War I. The film benefited from this personal touch and, in fact, the…
Ethics writer celebrates resignation of ‘a good man’
Writing at thedailybeast.com, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry – a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Centre in Washington DC – celebrates the resignation of Kansas City’s controversial Bishop Robert W. Finn, describing it as “a watershed moment in the history of the Catholic Church”. Open to the possibility that Dr Finn is “a good…
A nation agin’ the law
During the long colonial occupation, Irish people learnt to be wary of rules and laws. They considered these to be means of continuing their subjugation, and saw them as incompatible with the betterment and advancement of their family, friends and community. In a compelling book sociologist Niamh Hourigan (who is senior lecturer at the School of Sociology and…