Casey Schmauder Casey Schmauder meets former IRA bomber Shane O’Doherty who turned to God while in prison Sitting down to a pot of tea and a blueberry muffin, Shane O’Doherty says, “I work at a shelter just around the corner, so this is where I come prior to starting my 12-hour night shift.” Shane has…
11.30am Mass at the Franciscan Friary in Killarney, Co. Kerry has been home to their folk group for the last 30 years. Many people have come and gone over that time and indeed some faces have been there from the very beginning. Over the weekend of May 13-14 as many former and current members will…
Rhubarb bonds with so many flavours, like rhubarb and custard tart and hard-boiled sweets, or rhubarb and ginger jam. But it’s also fantastic on its own, without interference from other flavours. Rhubarb jelly 2 lbs rhubarb washed and trimmed Juice 2 large oranges and 2 large lemons (or three small to medium lemons) 6 tbsp…
Fast and Furious 8 (12A) The two most popular types of books on the market these days, I’m told, are cook books and diet books. I’m thinking of writing one called Cook It But Don’t Eat It. That should corner both markets. Our society is beset with contradictions. Every night on TV – justifiably –…
It was another week of controversies on hot social and political topics. News and current affairs programmes dealt extensively with the controversy about the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) to a site at St Vincent’s. Inherent in most debates was the unchallenged assumption that there was a clash between best medical practice and…
World Without End, by Thomas Keating OCSO and Joseph Boyle, with Lucette Verboven (Bloomsbury, £10.99) The author, a Trappist monk of the community at St Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, is already well known as a spiritual writer. His earlier books, Open Mind, Open Heart and The Mystery of Christ are familiar to many. He…
Sisters of the Revolutionaries: The story of Margaret & Mary Brigid Pearse, by Teresa & Mary Louise O’Donnell (Merrion Press,€14.99). This is an excellent account of the sisters of Patrick and Willie Pearse. Since the Pearse sisters died some of the politically motivated commentary on them ranged from the overtly negative to the gratuitously offensive. …
The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion. A Book of Daily Devotion, edited by Lisa Hendey and Sarah A. Reinhard (Ave Maria Press, $16.95; available online) There cannot be these days a more harassed set of people than the Catholic mothers of the world. This book is as the title suggests, of North American origin. That said…
Antoin Delap An Ghaeilge i Maigh Nuad, le Seán Ó hÉanacháin (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, €12) Is saothar an-chuimsíoch i seo múnlaithe ar thráchtas dochtúireachta a rinne an túdar. Clúdaítear corradh le dhá chéad bhliain de stair an choláiste inti. Tá’n túdar le moladh go mór as doimhneas agus iomláineacht a chuid taighde agus ach go háirithe…
THE WORLD OF BOOKS On Easter Monday I went with a friend to the regular monthly Book Fair in Dublin. This caters for many kinds of readers and collectors. Most of the books on offer are at very reasonable prices. Nothing here that would sell for more than a couple hundred euros – high enough,…
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