Peter Costello
Church of St Aengus at Burt Co. Donegal, a modern church in an ancient landscape. Religion, Landscape & Settlement in Ireland,Kevin Whelan (Four Courts Press, €24.95 / £39.99) The cover of Kevin Whelan’s new book, which shows early Christian beehive cells on the Skelligs, might give the hesitating purchaser the impression that he deals in detail with developments from the introduction of Christianity to Ireland. But in fact the text moves…
