Courtney McGrailAristotelian Interpretations by Fran O’Rourke (Irish Academic Press, €29.99)
Category: Reviews
Find some sacred space for yourself
Sacred Space: The Payer Book 2017 edited by the Irish Jesuits (Messenger Publications, €11.99)
Recent books in brief
The Passion and the Cross: Daily Reading for Lent by Ronald Rolheiser (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) The season before Christmas may seem an odd time to bring out a book for Lent, but publishers move in mysterious ways. This is the cheaper paperback edition of a book that appeared last year. The author is the…
Playing the green card
“A Failed Political Entity”: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question 1945-1992 by Stephen Kelly (Merrion Press, €24.99 pb / €75.00 hb)
When the pen is mightier than the sword
Aubrey MaloneThe Accountant (15A)
Heroes who have found their meaning of life
Brendan O’ReganI enjoyed several thought-provoking interviews last Sunday. First up, on Sunday Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster) was philosopher Julian Baggini, author of a new book, The Edge of Reason. I could relate to his notion that public debate nowadays is very often guided by emotion or poorly thought out ideas rather than rational thought. He made…
Recent books in brief
St Francis Uncensored by Patrick Noonan OFM (Choice Publishing, €10.99; visit www.choicepublishing.ie) Since the election of the present Pope there has been an increase of interest in St Francis himself. But over the centuries the saint has become covered up with the sort of sentimental piety that obscures the real man and his associates,…
Brief lives of our truly eminent
Peter CostelloGreat Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland’s Finest edited by Charles Lysaght (Times Books / HarperCollins, £12.99)
Welcoming angels unaware
Open Hearts, Open Arms: Welcoming Migrants to Ireland by Alan Hilliard (Messenger Publications, €3.99)
Constitutional rivalries in a divided nation
Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court by James D. Zirin (Rowman and Littlefield. $28 – €26 approximately)