Peter CostelloWheels of Light by Fr Con Buckley (Author House, £19.99 pb; eBook edition, €5.89) Where We Now Stand: The Lourdes Sermons of John Charles McQuaid compiled by M. Ó Ciardubháin (EPrint Publishing, €20.00)
Category: Reviews
Grammar and the deep roots of human speech
World of Books
Ulster’s troubled vision of itself
The BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland by Robert Savage (Manchester University Press, £70)
A potpourri of July movie releases
Aubrey MaloneThe silly season is here and film-makers are doing their best to drag you in from the sun. Here are some of the more high profile releases now showing in your local cinema: Faith of Our Fathers (PG) In 1969 in Vietnam, a man with a great faith went into battle with a religious sceptic…
Reasonableness a hot topic on blogs after court decision
Courtney McGrailPerhaps predictably, the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision to legalise same-sex marriage throughout the US has dominated online Catholic discourse in recent weeks. Firstthings.com has published a fascinating online symposium on the decision and its implications, and Ross Douthat argues on nytimes.com that the judgment is profoundly ironic, with the court having embraced…
Pernicious lies exposed for what they are
Five Anti-Catholic Myths: Slavery, Crusades, Inquisition, Galileo, Holocaust by Gerard M. Verschuuren (Angelico Press, £11.50; ISBN-13: 978-1621381280)
Galway Film Fleadh
If you’re in or around the City of Tribes between July 7 and 12 you should check out the Galway Film Fleadh. Now in its 27th year, Ireland’s leading film festival has a gala line-up this time. The highlight, for me, has to be the Garret Daly/Martina McGlynn feature A Nightingale Falling (Town Hall, July 9). I saw this on RTÉ…
A fascinating tome on Fenian leaders
Conspirators: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Revolutionary Underground by Shane Kenna (Mercier Press, €14.99) A remarkable rogue’s gallery of revolutionaries, members of the IRB and Fenian movements, some of whom developed into democratic leaders. But it is as well to remember that not all the Fenians were heroes by any means. Money and murder left…
Poetry in motion with a unique vision
Epic by Desmond Egan (Goldsmith Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, €15.00pb)
Racy of the soil
Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History by James Quinn (UCD Press, €30 pb)