Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 131
One Pot Wonders by Conrad Gallagher (Hardback; 16.99 IEP / 21.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Simple dishes, readily available ingredients and a wealth of enticing recipes that involve only one pan: what could be better? Whether it's a wok, griddle, frying pan, saucepan, braising pan, roasting tin or casserole, Conrad Gallagher delights in easy ways to give unashamedly modern and sublime starters, sensational main courses and delicious desserts. Entertaining can be much more fun without all the hassle of the washing up and, with only one pot, the pleasure of simplicity is assured. From the tools to the table, all is explained in this exciting book by the highly praised Dublin chef. The recipes are complements by stunning colour photographs by Gus Filgate.
Rambles in Cork City and County by Joe Cronin (Paperback; 7.99 IEP / 10.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Cork, the largest county and second largest city in Ireland, is blessed with some of the country's finest rural and urban walking potential. Over thirty rambles of discovery featuring urban vistas, rural passageways, riverside and clifftop. Most walks featured in this book are from 3 to 5 miles, and all the walks are accessible to young and old, fit and unfit. Features of the book include flora and fauna, history and archaeology, and folklore. Attractions include: the Gearagh's unique ecosystem, archaeological sites in Millstreet Country Park, the 13th century Church of St. Multose in Kinsale, and St. Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork City.
Stories of Ancient Celtic Festivals (Faery Nights Oicheanta Si) written and illustrated by Micheal Mac Liammoir (Paperback; 4.99 IEP / 6.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book contains 4 lively stories of the extraordinary goings-on of ancient Ireland's festival nights. Written in the style of the seanchai, this enchanting collection is in the very best tradition of fairy tales. The stories are told first in English, then in Irish.
Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Vision for the Homeward Bound by Diarmuid O Murchu (Paperback; 9.99 IEP 12.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
In this book the author offers some penetrating and original insights into the changing and evolving spiritual awareness of our time, one that is rapidly out-growing the time-honoured but exhausted vision of formal religion. This is a disturbing, but profoundly inspiring contribution to the evolving spiritual consciousness of our time. It is an invaluable resource for many people who are trying to make sense of the new spiritual awakening.
Best of Ireland by Matthew Drennan (Hardback; 2.99 IEP / 4.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This small gift-hardback explores the finest traditional cooking of Ireland. It contains information on all the classic dishes from soups to Irish stews and from pies to breads. It features a feast of more than 30 delicious recipes that celebrate Ireland's culinary heritage and is an inspiration for all occasions and seasons. Full-colour photos throughout.
Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the Gael, AD 500-1750 by C. Thomas Cairney (Paperback; 21.50 IEP / 27.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is scholarly yet readable. It presents the origins and history of more than one thousand Irish and Scottish families. It also includes charts, appendices and a bibliography.
Can Lily O'Shea Come Out to Play? By Lily O'Connor (Paperback; 9.99 IEP / 12.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This vivid memoir of a childhood in the 1930s and 40s is marked by its narrator's consciousness of her status as a outsider, for Lily is a child of a mixed marriage, baptised a Protestant but living in a Catholic community. The originality of this account of an Irish childhood is its portrait of a spirited girl coming to terms with her difference. At first she simply doesn't understand why she cannot receive the blessings of the priests and nuns which they convey somewhat haughtily upon her Catholic playmates. She yearns to be the same as other children: to have holy pictures and statues, altar lamps and a holy water font; to wear a lovely new white Communion dress. At its heart, however, this is a universal story of a childhood; of hardship and joy, of violence, poverty, pleasure, humour and, over all, humanity.
Catherine McAuley and the Tradition of Mercy by Mary Sullivan (Paperback; 17.95 IEP / 22.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Catherine McCauley was born into a wealthy Dublin family in 1778. By the time she reached adulthood, she had witnessed the death of both parents, and experienced considerable personal poverty. She then worked for twenty years as a companion for an elderly couple and, upon their deaths, received an unexpected inheritance. Driven by a deep faith and pragmatic sense of charity, she opened, in 1827, an institution for the unemployed and impoverished women. This proved to be the first step towards the foundation, in 1831, of the Sisters of Mercy, an order now established around the world. Catherine McCauley was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1990. This book is a collection of some of the most important writings by and about Catherine McAuley and includes letters, memoirs and annals by many of the first Sisters of Mercy and McAuley's original manuscript of the Rule and Constitutions of the order, critically edited for the first time.
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