Capital in the Twenty First Century

The Beauty of God’s Presence in the Fathers of the Church.

Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell

Looking at the Middle East as “the cradle of Christianity”

A selection for summer reading

This is a ‘reimagining’ of  the Jane Austen novel, the second in a series. This may seem a strange sort of project, but the result, with the abbey now set in the Scottish Borders, a far cry from the genteel settings of Jane Austen’s original. But this novel too is great fun, which indeed is…

A last look round the Binchy estate so to speak in this set of tales concerning the varied residents of Chestnut Street, which readers of Minding Frankie will recall is just around the corner from St Jarlath’s Crescent. These are warm and entertaining tales of the kind of suburban life which was very much Maeve…

This is an interesting exploration of the state of Eastern Europe since the fall of communism, in many ways it echoes the atmosphere of a 1930s novel, but yet is right up to date in the attitudes to society and politics and money. This is a world which the author, a former journalist turned industrialist,…