16 Lives: Thomas Clarke by Helen Litton (O’Brien Press, Dublin, €12.99 / £10.99)

This book was of special interest to me. Behind the house in which I grew up in Rathmines was a triangular plot of land, a left over between three earlier developments. In the late 1940s and early 1950s this allotment was cultivated by unemployed men from the Mount Street Club. They disappeared towards the middle…

Inside RTÉ: A Memoir by Betty Purcell (New Island, €19.99 / £16.30)

Beautiful Landscapes of Ireland by Carsten Kreiger, with an introduction by Peter Harbison (The O’Brien Press, €9.99 / £8.20)

Anthony Redmond Father Paul Murray OP is Irish by birth. He now works in Rome where he teaches at the Angelicum University. He is also a poet.  There is so much of extraordinary value in his book, Scars, of both thought and poetry, that it’s difficult to know precisely where to begin. He deals with affliction,…

Holy Bible: NIV / New International Version, read by David Suchet, six MP3 CDs (Hodder & Stoughton, €50.00 / £39.99)

John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church by Mark S. Sweetnam (Four Courts Press, €65.00 hb / £52.99 hb)

John Donne’s poems move towards a genuine contact with Christ