The Ongoing Present: A Critical Look at the Society and World in Which I Grew Up
Category: Reviews
Lent the whole year round
The Lent Factor: Forty Companions for the Forty days of Lent
Breaking up is hard to do
Parenting When Separated: Helping Your Children Cope and Thrive
The Catholic Doctors’ dilemma in Cork
The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth century Cork
The legacy of Dylan Thomas
Remembering the ‘unusual’ poet
App brings God into digital world
Amid the imposed and often fast-paced routine of everyday life, an app is giving people a reason to quiet their minds through light meditation and prayer. PeaceQuest is an immersive 3-D app designed to take users on a spiritual journey and allow them to establish a deeper connection with God and with themselves. Fr Stephen…
Tight-lipped, worried teen returns from sabbatical
Out of Here (12A)
Good things for chilly Tuesday evenings
Two new TV dramas to recommend for the winter evenings
Medieval Dubliners brought back to life
For many people Viking Dublin and Protestant Georgian Dublin, thanks largely to the fierce controversies over the years about their preservation, are more familiar than the long intervening centuries of medieval Dublin, when the capital might be said to have been a truly Catholic though English speaking city. This book is a notable attempt to bridge…
The heirs of Martha and Mary
Whenever the question of married priests, women in the Church or even women priests comes up, I often think of the wife of a Church of Ireland bishop, who remarked to me: “I often wonder about the enthusiasm of some Catholics for women in the Church. It’s not much fun being married to a priest.”…

Peter Costello
Courtney McGrail
Cathal Barry
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan