Peter CostelloConflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age 1900-1916 by Dr Éimear O’Connor and others (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, €10.00)
Aspiring visions in Ireland before the Rising
Category: Reviews
Joyce’s real Dubliners
The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses: A Biographical Guide by Vivien Igoe (University College Dublin Press, €40.00hb)
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…
Little and large seek out malice in ‘Blunderland’
Aubrey Malone
Central Intelligence (12A)
When fact is more frightening than fiction
Brendan O’Regan
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)
The Abbey Theatre’s role in the making of modern Ireland
The Splendid Years: The Memoirs of an Abbey Actress and 1916 Rebel by Máire Nic Shúibhlaigh with Edward Kenny, edited by David Kenny (Dublin: New Island Books, €15.95)
Questioning received truths about the nation
Irish Adventures In Nation-Building by Bryan Fanning (Manchester University Press, £18.99)