Brendan O’Regan reviews some Christmas offerings
Category: Reviews
Here’s to the memory of a Dubliner
Paradise Alley by John D. Sheridan (Seven Towers, €11.99/£15.00)
A Nigerian martyr for his people’s cause
Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa, ed. by Ide Corley, Helen Fallon and Laurence Coc (The Council for Social Science Research in Africa / Daraja Press, £9.70)
A wrong-headed view of revisionism
Robert Perry, Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics (Ashgate Publishing £49.50)
St Nicholas, the Christmas saint for all seasons
Who was the real St Nicholas?
Review of the Year 2013
A look back at the main events of the year in the media
The Year in Film
The movie highlights of the year
Books of the Year
Looking back over the past year of their reading and reviewing some of our regular contributors have selected what seem to them to be the best reading of 2013, a varied and wide-ranging choice.
Pick of the Season – Christmas 2013
NOTE: times subject to change.
Christmas books
Peter Costello examines the season’s offerings

Brendan O’Regan
Peter Costello
Paul Keenan
Aubrey Malone