Ever walk in the woods this time of the year and get that overpowering scent of garlic? Don’t just take the delicious smell for granted because in among the trees, thousands of wild garlic leaves are just waiting to be picked and whizzed up into wild garlic pesto. You can make pesto out of almost…
Emily Massey, Kia Hayes and Alison Rae describe their work with the St Vincent de Paul
The Nice Guys (15A)
‘Engaging’ crime debates dominated last week’s viewing, highlighting the ‘suffering’ local community, writes Brendan O’Regan
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Heraldic Dublin – The Three Castles of Dublin: An Eclectic History of Dublin through the Evolution of the City’s Coat of Arms by Michael English (Four Courts Press for Dublin City Council, €29.95)
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)
Conspiracy-minded Catholics are up in arms online after claims that Pope Francis’ long awaited post-synodal exhortation was ghost-written by an old Argentinian friend. Writing at chiesa.expressonline.it, long-time Vaticanista Sandro Magister, whose press credentials were withdrawn by the Holy See last year after his involvement in publishing in advance a leaked version of the Pope’s environmental…
Fr Martin Delaney reflects on a powerful memory
Erin Fox
Aubrey Malone
Brendan O’Regan