Paul KeenanDivine Discontent: The Prophetic Voice of Thomas Merton by John Moses, foreword by Rowan Williams (Bloomsbury Continuum, €25.00 / £20.00 hb)
Category: Reviews
The intimations of mortality: an ode
Aubrey MaloneThe Fault in Our Stars (12A) It’s not always a good idea to meet your idols, as they say: the gilt has a habit of rubbing off on your fingers. This is the experience of 18-year-old cancer victim Hazel (Shailene Woodley) after she has an underwhelming rendezvous with Peter van Houten (Willem Dafoe), the ill-mannered author of…
The curiosities of Dublin
Peter CostelloThe World of Books
The last of his kind
The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great Blasket Island by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin, with Patricia Ahearn (The Collins Press, €12.99 / £10.50)
The great Lords of Leinster
The Decline and Fall of the Dukes of Leinster 1872-1948; Love, war, debt and madness by Terence Dooley (Four Courts Press, €24.95/£19.95)
The saintly son of Bergamo
Good Pope John by Michael Collins (Columba Press, €9.99 / £7.99)
Challenges faced and overcome
Brendan O’ReganAn inspiring story of life fully lived
Life in the fast lane for New York quartet
A tale excellently acted and directed
Surviving in power
Archbishop Miler Magrath: The Enigma of Cashel by Patrick J. Ryan (Lisheen Publications, €39 hb, €25 pb / £31.99 hb, £20.50 pb)
Moral blindness over mothers and babies
The Tuam babies controversy showed no signs of abating