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Category: Reviews
White flags over Dublin’s streets
1916 Surrenders: Captain H. E. de Courcy-Wheeler’s Eye-Witness Account by Alex Findlater (Edited by A & A Farmar) Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, €11.99)
Recent books in brief
New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
Each one of us is called
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)
Murder, suicide and disability rights
Brendan O’Regan
New series ‘Unforgotten’ hits all the right notes while ‘Wallander’ and ‘Right Hook’ deals with “heavier stuff”
Do depressed people have the right to die?
Aubrey Malone
The meanings behind the film ‘Me Before You’ (12A)
Feeding the rage of the Catholic blogosphere
Conspiracy-minded Catholics are up in arms online after claims that Pope Francis’ long awaited post-synodal exhortation was ghost-written by an old Argentinian friend. Writing at chiesa.expressonline.it, long-time Vaticanista Sandro Magister, whose press credentials were withdrawn by the Holy See last year after his involvement in publishing in advance a leaked version of the Pope’s environmental…
Comic book sleuths dice with death in ‘retro’ romp
The Nice Guys (15A)
Crime is figuring large in the media
‘Engaging’ crime debates dominated last week’s viewing, highlighting the ‘suffering’ local community, writes Brendan O’Regan
The many sides of an Irish intellectual
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)