Mags GarganIreland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-86 by James H. Murphy
Category: Reviews
The Franciscan way: then and now
Peter CostelloEager to Love: the Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi by Richard Rohr OFM
The ‘Francis effect’ for kids
Pope Francis: The Story of Our Pope by Ailís Travers, illustrated by Lir Mac Cárthaigh
X Factor meets Slumdog Millionaire
Aubrey MaloneThe trouble about making a film based on a true story like this is that one has to become a kind of slave to facts. In this case the facts are that two young boys, Rinku and Kinesh, were plucked from obscurity in India in 2008 to join a major league baseball team in America.…
What’s in a name?
Place names are so central to issues of identity and rejection that they cause trouble all around the world
Taking safety to the ultimate degree
Danger is Everywhere by Docter Noel Zone
Juggling jobs and emotions in Toronto
Can friends who become lovers preserve their friendship or are the two circumstances mutually exclusive? This was a theme that was explored to some acclaim in When Harry Met Sally. Here it acquires a somewhat different spin. Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) is a medical student drop-out who's trying to recover from being rejected by his girlfriend.…
An Irish Jesuit in the Great War
Mary KennyFrancis Browne has been best known to the public as the extraordinary photographer who took the last pictures aboard the doomed Titanic – he had the luck, or perhaps was given the grace – to alight at Queenstown (Cobh) before she began her final trajectory across the Atlantic. But Fr Browne SJ, also had another…
The Spirituality of Married Life
Courtney McGrailBy J. Anthony Gaughan It is often stated that there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. On reflection and taking account of the human condition one realises that this is a truism. But there are successful marriages. In this timely book John Cogavin provides advice, cautions and suggestions to enable couples of all ages to enjoy such marriages.…
Moved by the Spirits?
Spiritualism must have reached its historic acme in the years between the wars, when such people as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were fervent missionaries for the belief. Historians have surmised that this was one outcome of the millions of lives lost in the Great War, and the inconsolable grief of those left behind. One senses…