I finally caught up with TG4’s series Pobal ag Guílast Sunday night. A review of Ireland’s relationship with religion, it started well with coverage of last year’s Eucharistic Congress but unfortunately it then fell back on lazy film making, stereotypes and clichés. And so there were lots of black and white clips of former Archbishop…
Category: Reviews
Duel of the Titans
A film too slick for its own good, writes Aubrey Malone
New light on St Patrick’s birthplace
Rediscovering St Patrick: A new theory of origins by Marcus Losack (Columba Press, €16.99 / £14.50)
The real roots of Irish politics
Defying the law of the land: agrarian radicals in Irish history edited by Brian Casey (The History Press Ireland)
False notes in suburbia
Mount Merrion by Justin Quinn (Penguin Ireland, €14.99 / £12.99)
Thoughts of an unfluential prelate
For many years Cardinal Martini of was spoken of as a papabile. His elevation was not to be, but he remained one of the most influential and admired of senior clergy with a ready ability to communicate what he believed to the widest kind of audience. Though he passed away after some years of illness…
A link to the Upper Room
Father Redmond will be familiar to many not only for his many; devotional books, but also for his musical compositions. "It is my hope," he writes "that this book will convey something of the continuity of the crowning act of providence, something of that witnessing appreciation and love" which some of the great spiritual figures…
Pope’s encyclical tops internet charts
Lumen Fidei is topping best sellers lists online
Jean Vanier’s vision for our future
Signs of the Time: Seven Paths of Hope for a Troubled World, by Jean Vanier, translated by Ann Shearer (Darton, Longman & Todd, €10.99 / £8.99)
The hope of healing and the charity of care
Caring for the Nation: A History of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, by Sr Eugene Nolan (Gill & Macmillan, €29.99 / £26.99)