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Category: Reviews
Vital poetic encounters with Jesus
Peter CostelloPoetry Ireland Review Issue 112: Name and Nature: ‘Who do you say that I am?’
Reading the brushwork
Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art ed. Janet McLean
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.…
The troubled rule of the Red Earl
Mags GarganIreland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-86 by James H. Murphy
The Franciscan way: then and now
Eager 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
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.…