The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Biographical Guide by Vivien Igoe (University College Dublin Press, €40.00hb)
Joyce’s real Dubliners
Category: Reviews
The Rebels and the Law
After the Rising: Soldiers, lawyers and trials of the Irish Revolution by Seán Enright (Merrion Press, €19.99)
The World of Books
Courtney McGrailAfter writing recently about the Battle of Verdun and the literature of the Great War, I decided that as the anniversary of the Somme would be well marked by State and media, no reference to it would be needed here. But my mind has been changed by the publication of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into…
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Aubrey Malone
Maggie’s Plan (15A)
Garden paths and secret side-lines
Brendan O’Regan
I don’t often watch garden makeover programmes, but when I do I’m usually impressed. On Tuesday of last week I enjoyed Love Your Garden (ITV/UTV). In this series presenter Alan Titchmarch does makeovers for people with special needs in the broadest sense. Last week it was the turn of Hari Budha Maga, a former Gurkha…
Towards new ways of Christian living
Peter Costello
Just Living: Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism by Ruth Valerio (Hodder & Stoughton, £13.99)
Little and large seek out malice in ‘Blunderland’
Central Intelligence (12A)
When fact is more frightening than fiction
A spooky BBC drama has Brendan O’Regan is engrossed in “a hot bed of dubious spiritual activity”
The transforming power of word and image
Transformed by God’s Words: Discovering the Power of Lectio and Visio Divina by Stephen J. Binz, with icons painted by Ruta and Kaspars Poikans (Ave Maria Press, £11.99; distributed by Alban Books)
The legalities of revolution
Guilty but insane: J.C. Bowen-Colthurst: Villain or Victim? by James W. Taylor (Mercier Press, €19.99)