Peter CostelloCompanion and Study Guide to the Encyclical Praise be to You by Pope Francis By Fr Eamonn Conway & Cathal Barry, with a foreword by Éamonn Meehan and a prologue by Archbishop Eamon Martin Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis (Veritas, €4.99; Kindle edition, Amazon Whispernet, £7.99)
Category: Reviews
A Londoner in the Rising
Courtney McGrailInside the GPO 1916: a first-hand account by Joe Good (O’Brien Press, €11.95)
Sadness for a homesick child
Aubrey MaloneInside Out (G)
The divided loyalties of John Mitchel
Between Two Flags: John Mitchel and Jenny Verner by Anthony G. Russell (Merrion Press, €19.99pb/ €65.00hb)
A contemporary poet fit to stand beside Yeats
Confronting Shadows: An Introduction to the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella by David Lynch (New Island, €24.99)
Towering aspirations
This little book of spirituality is inspired by the writings of St John Cassian (circa 360 – 435 AD), the ascetic monk who introduced the concepts of Egyptian monasticism into the wider western Church, through his residence in Gaul. By her choice of title, the author alludes to that passage of the parable of tower…
Small is beautiful
Giving Life Away: Memories by James O’Halloran SDB (Little Book Company, 11 Hillbrook Crescent, Perystown, Dublin 12; ISBN 9781906077174 ; no price stated)
Cardinal Pell cast as papal challenger
In a strange piece on cruxnow.com, Rosie Scammell interprets a Financial Times interview to say that “The Vatican’s financial chief, Cardinal George Pell, has taken the unusual step of criticising Pope Francis’ groundbreaking environmental encyclical, arguing the Catholic Church has ‘no particular expertise in science’.” This take, since echoed by Damian Thompson at blogs.spectator.co.uk and…
Grammar and the deep roots of human speech
World of Books
Travels with my ant
We can trace the genesis of superheroes from Superman himself through the scatter of lesser descendants who’ve taken their names from all walks of evolution – Spiderman, Batman and so on. The latest addition to the canon is Ant-Man, played by Paul Rudd (pictured). His main trick is being able to shrink himself to the size of an…