Courtney McGrailThomas Hussey (1746-1803): Bishop of Waterford & Lismore by Liam Murphy (Kingdom Books, €20)
Category: Reviews
Fessing up to financial disaster
Hell at the Gates: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Financial Downfall by John Lee and Daniel McConnell (Mercier Press, €16.99)
Dylan’s Nobel prize awards many cultures
The World of Books
Life-affirming tale of triumph over adversity
Aubrey MaloneQueen of Katwe (PG)
The gift of faith across the years
Brendan O’ReganIt’s great to hear people being enthusiastic about their faith…it can be inspirational and infectious. These thoughts were prompted by last Saturday night’s The Conversation on BBC World Service. Two religious sisters were interviewed: Mother Hildegard a Benedictine sister from Australia but now in Tyburn Convent, London and Sr Tracy Kemme, a young American woman…
Heavenly heroes of the Faith
Peter CostelloThe Saints: A Short History by Simon Yarrow (Oxford University Press, £10.99)
One writer’s capital
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, with photographs by Paul Joyce (Hachette Ireland, €24.99)
Cork’s man of 1916
16 Lives: Tomas Kent by Meda Ryan (O’Brien Press, €14.99)
Sweet Cork of Thee
On the Banks: Cork City in Poems and Songs edited by Alannah Hopkin (Collins Press, €17.99)
Old reliables… and perhaps not so reliables
An occasional pleasure offered by the internet is when a blog one had previously liked but thought defunct splutters unexpectedly into life, as if to say “I’m not quite dead!” Such revivals are rarely sustained, but they’re welcome for all that. It was, as such, a delight to see valledarurni.blogspot.ie rear its head last week,…