Courtney McGrailSpeaking from Within: Biblical Approaches for Effective Preaching by Kieran J O’Mahony OSA (Veritas, €12.99)
Category: Reviews
Summer of love for a Strasbourg Tomboy
Aubrey MaloneBaden Baden
A journey of lives lost and saved
Brendan O’ReganRobert Duvall is one of my favourite American actors so I was glad to see him interviewed on The World Over Live (EWTN) last Thursday afternoon. Presenter Raymond Arroyo was well informed on Duvall’s films and had some acting experience himself which helped when they discussed various acting coaches and styles. I had forgotten…
The Reformation and its consequences revisited
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmuid MacCulloch (Allen and Lane, £25.00)
Redcoats on the Curragh of Kildare
Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp by Dan Harvey (Merrion Press, €14.99)
The last of the priest’s houskeepers
The World of Books
Biopic serves as an ode to horticultural sophistry
Dare to be Wild (PG)
Radio shake-ups and familiar subjects
Last week was the first for Newstalk’s new schedule, and they’ve had some thorough changes. I’m glad to see Shane Coleman at the helm on the new Breakfast show. The laddish approach of the Donoghue/Yates combo has given way to a more serious tone, and it looks like Morning Ireland will now have a worthy…
The still small voices of poetry
Peter CostelloThe Poet’s Quest for God: an anthology of 21st Century poems of faith, doubt and wonder ed. by Fr Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift, with Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton Evans, with an introduction by Dr Ewan Fernie (Eyewear Publishing / Signature Books, £24.99. Distributed by Central Books in the UK and Ireland.)
Some morning thoughts from Pope Francis…
Morning Homilies III by Pope Francis, translated by Dinah Livingstone (Orbis Books / Alban Books, £11.99)