Courtney McGrailDefending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity by Anthony Esolen (Saint Benedict Press, US$ 14.95; www.SaintBenedictPress.com )
Category: Reviews
Patriotic gore is also a record of the ways in which Kerry patriots have been honoured
Dying for the Cause: Kerry’s Republican Dead by Tim Horgan (Mercier Press, €35.00)
The false glamour of cook books
Peter CostelloWorld of books by the books editor
The lost boys, the girl and the ‘good lie’ of Sudan
Aubrey MaloneThe Good Lie (12A)
Critics line up to hammer Cameron’s Easter message
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The hidden heart of the Revolution
A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of 1916 selected by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald (O’Brien Press, €14.99)
St Ciaran’s city fair
The Landscape of Clonmacnoise by John Feehan (Offaly County Council, €45; Heritage Office, Offaly County Council, Charleville Road, Tullamore, Co. Offaly; heritage@offalycoco.ie)
Lost medieval manuscript returns to Dublin
Books Editor The library in Trinity College has bought a highly significant early 14th Century manuscript produced at St Mary’s Cistercian Abbey in Dublin. Written out on velum, it was created some time after 1304, but passed into private hands at the dissolution of the monastery under Henry VIII, and had been lost sight…
In a word, the essential message of Paul to us all
Hidden in Christ: Living as God’s Beloved by James Bryan Smith (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99)
A guided tour through history of faith
Brendan O’ReganLast Thursday’s episode of The Simpsons on RTÉ 2 was imaginative, topical and religious