All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman (William Collins, £25)
Category: Reviews
Plaintive tug-of-love drama exudes power
Aubrey MaloneThe Light Between Oceans (12A)
Shrill laments welcome ‘political earthquake’ in US
Courtney McGrailOn his Today With Seán O’Rourke show (RTÉ Radio 1) Wednesday morning of last week the presenter described it as a ‘political earthquake’, and words like ‘extraordinary’ and ‘revolution’ were scattered about liberally. A restless sleep Tuesday night of last week saw me checking intermittently on developments in the US election so I could gradually…
Aristotle: One of western culture’s greatest minds
Aristotelian Interpretations by Fran O’Rourke (Irish Academic Press, €29.99)
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)
Squandering a pro-life movement for a tawdry triumph
Among the many depressing pieces published in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s US Presidential election was one at ncregister.com entitled ‘Trump’s Triumph powered by religious voters’. “The next days will allow for careful study of the numbers, but the exit polls found initially that Trump may have carried the largest…
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)