Peter CostelloThe South Circular Road Dublin on the eve of the First World War by Catherine Scuffil (Four Courts Press / Maynooth Studies in Local History, €8.95/£7.95) A Portrait of Dublin in Maps by Muiris de Buitléir (Gill & Macmillan, €29.99 / £26.99)
Category: Reviews
The power of the Passion
Brendan O’ReganEnvisioning Christ on the Cross: Ireland and the Early Medieval West, ed. Juliet Mullins, Jennifer Ni Ghrádaigh & Richard Hawtree, (Four Courts Press, €55.00 / £60.00)
The spirit of place
Consolations of the Forest: Alone in cabin in the middle Taiga, by Sylvain Tesson (Allen Lane, €18.99 / £16.99) Tóchar: Walking Ireland’s ancient pilgrim paths, by Darach MacDonald (New Island Books, €14.99 / £12.99)
The faithful few
The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, by J. Anthony Gaughan (Kingdom Books, €24.00/£22.00)
The heroic monsignor and marriage debates
The heroic monsignor and marriage debates
Phantasmagoria and a touch of whimsy
Thor: The Dark World (12A)There’s no gainsaying the visual splendour of would-be epics like this, even if they tend to resemble little more than sophisticated video games betimes, but the makers rarely seem to bother inserting any subtleties in the plotlines or characterisations, as if the kind of people who go to films like this…
Webwatch
Cathal BarryCathal Barry offers a round up of web developments for Catholics
When spooks and the Spirit collide
Peter Cotsello looks at elements of Halloween
Finding a place for religion
Brendan O’Regan seeks evidence of media bias
The sins of the mothers
Unmoved by a bittersweet drama