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Recent Acquisitions (a selection)

A selection of acquisitions in 2008

A selection of acquisitions in 2007

A selection of acquisitions in 2006

A selection of acquisitions in 2005

The following list shows a selection of titles added to stock in 2009. Additions to the Lending Department are listed first, followed by additions to stock in the Reference Department.

Lending Department

March

Collins, Pat. The Gifts of the Spirit and the New Evangelisation. Dublin : Columba Press, 2009. 162 p. Class no. 7 / 490

Grogan, Brian. Alone And On Foot : Ignatius of Loyola. Dublin : Veritas, 2008. 222 p. Class no. 11 / 1068

Pennington, M. Basil. Seeking His Mind : 40 meetings with Christ. Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, c2002. 134 p. Class no. 23 / 1667

Radcliffe, Timothy. Why Go To Church? the Drama of the Eucharist. London : Continuum, c2008. 214 p. Class no. 7 / 489

Ryan, Patrick J. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross : scriptural reflections for Lent. New York : Paulist Press, c2004. 185 p. Class no. 23 / 1666

Walker, Susan. Triduum! Formation, Preparation, Celebration. San Jose, California : Resourse Publications Inc., c2004. 41 p. Class no. 21 / 285

April

White, Stephen R. A Space for Unknowing : the place of Agnosis in Faith. Dublin : Columba Press, 2006. 160 p. Class no. 7 / 491

McQueen, Moira. Bioethics Matters : a guide for concerned Catholics. London : Burns & Oates, 2009. 107 p. Class no. 7 / 492

Augustine, Saint. Confessions. Translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992. 311 p. Class no. 11 / 1069

Ferguson, Catherine. Margaret Anna Cusack (the Nun of Kenmare), Knock : November 1881 – December 1883. Warrenpoint, Co. Down : Gaelbooks, c2008. 100 p. Class no. 12 / 2589

McCreary, Alf. In St Patrick’s Footsteps. Belfast : Appletree Press, 2006. 128 p. Class no. 11 / 1070

Corish, Patrick J. and Begnignus Millet (Editors). The Irish Martyrs. Dublin : Four Courts Press, c2005. 203 p. Class no. 11 / 1071

Taylor, Alice. The Parish. Dingle, Co. Kerry : Brandon, c2009. 221 p. Class no. 12 / 2588

June

Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation : the world in the time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah. London : Atlantic Books, 2007. 469 p. Class no. 25 / 107

Beckett, Wendy, Sr. Sister Wendy Beckett on Prayer. London : Continuum, c2006. 132 p. Class no. 23 / 1668

Chesterton, G. K. Charles Dickens. Ware, Hertforshire : Wordsworth Editions, 2007. 154 p. Class no. 26 / 433

Curtis, Maurice. The Splendid Cause : the Catholic Action Movement in Ireland in the Twentieth Century. Dublin : Original Writing Ltd & Greenmount Publications, 2008. 330 p. Class no. 14 / 85

Howard, Anthony. Basil Hume : the monk cardinal. London : Headline, 2006. 342 p. Class no. 12 / 2590

Lewis, C. S. Surprised by Joy : the shape of my early life. London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. 277 p. Class no. 12 / 2591

July

Charpentier, Etienne. How to Read the Old Testament. London : SCM Press, 1982. 122 p. Class no. 1 / 498

Dorr, Donal. Mission in Today’s World. Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, 2000. 308 p. Class no. 15 / 242

Ferguson, Catherine. Margaret Anna Cusack (the Nun of Kenmare), Knock : November 1881 – December 1883. Warrenpoint, Co. Down : Gaelbooks, 2008. 100 p. Class no. 12 / 2592

Griffen, Emilie. Small Surrenders : a Lenten journey. Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, 2007. 249 p. Class no. 23 / 1669

Lynch, Irene Christina. Beyond Faith and Adventure : Irish missionaries in Nigeria tell their extraordinary story. ICDL, 2006. 483 p. Class no. 15 / 243

Stourton, Edward. In the Footsteps of Saint Paul. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 248 p. Class no. 11 / 1072

Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism : the nature and development of spiritual consciousness. Oxford : One World, 1999. 519 p. Class no. 23 / 1670

Reference Department

January

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (Ed.). The World Religions Reader. London : Routledge in association with the Open University, 1998. 478 p. Class no. 25 / Bec

Benson, Asher. Jewish Dublin : portraits of life by the Liffey. Dublin : A & A Farmar, 2007. 114 p. Class no. 29 L.H. (Dub) / 151

Benedict XVI, Pope. A New Song for the Lord : faith in Christ and liturgy today. New York : Crossroad Publishing Company, c1996. 228 p. Class no. 21. B / 20

Genovesi, Vincent J. In Pursuit of Love : Catholic morality and human sexuality. Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, c1996. 429 p. Class no. 8 M.T. / 110

Kelly, Joseph F. An Introduction to the New Testament for Catholics. Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, c2006. 276 p. Class no. 1. N / 95

Lewis, Bernard. Islam in History : ideas, people and events in the Middle East. Chicago, Illinois : Open Court, 1993. 487 p. Class no. 25b / Lew

Murphy, Roland E. The Tree of Life : an exploration of biblical wisdom literature. Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Cambridge, U.K. : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. , 2002. 286 p. Class no. 1. E / 56

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. Jesus and Paul : parallel lives. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, c2007. 121 p. Classs no. 2. L / 113

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. St. Paul's Ephesus : texts and archaeology. Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, c2008. 289 p. Class no. 1. J / 45

Putik, Alexandr et al. Jewish Customs and Traditions : festivals, the Synagogue and the course of life (Exhibition Guide). Prague : the Jewish Museum in Prague, 1998. 87 p. Class no. 25A / Put

Twomey, D. Vincent. Pope Benedict XVI - the conscience of our age : a theological portrait. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2007. 202 p. Class no. 4. C / 93

Findlater, Alex. Findlaters : the story of a Dublin merchant family, 1774-2001. Dublin : A. & A. Farmar, 2001. 577 p. Class no. 29 Hist (Gen) / F.2

Gaughan, J. Anthony. Recollections of a Writer by Accident. Dublin : Kingdom Books, 2002. 136 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Gau

Gaughan, J. Anthony. Travels on Four Continents. Dublin : Veritas Publications, 1984. 98 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Gau

Harrison, Richard S. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers. 2nd ed. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2008. 260 p. Class no. 29 Biog (Coll) / 43

Hill, Rosemary. God’s Architect : Pugin and the Building of Romantic England. London : Allen Lane, 2007. 601 p. Class no. 12 Pug 1 / 4

Hynes, Eugene. Knock : the Virgin’s Apparition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Cork : Cork University Press, 2008. 368 p. Class no. 11A / Hyn

Keogh, Dáire. Edmund Rice and the First Christian Brothers. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2008. 316 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Ric

MacAongusa, Brian. Hidden Streams : a new history of Dun-Laoghaire – Rathdown. Dublin : Currach Press, 2007. 191 p. Class no. 29 L.H. (Dublin) / 152

Nevin, Donal (Ed.). James Larkin : Lion of the Fold. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan in association with RTE and SIPTU, 1998. 557 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Lar

O’Malley, Una O’Higgins. From Pardon and Protest : memoirs from the margins. Galway ; Dublin : Arlen House, 2001. 206 p. Class no. 29 Biog / O’Mal

Sobrino, Jon. The Eye of the Needle : no salvation outside the poor – a utopian-prophetic essay. London : Darton, Longman & Todd, 2008. 96 p. Class no. 7. S. 29

Ward, Mary. A Briefe Relation… with autobiographical fragments and a selection of letters / Mary Ward ; edited by Christina Kenworthy-Browne C.J. Woodridge, Suffolk : published for the Catholic Record Society by the Boydell Press, 2008. 175 p. Class no. 5. X / 81

February

Brown, Gerry et al (Eds.). A History of St. Mary’s National School, Blessington, Co. Wicklow : 125th Anniversary, 1882-2007. [Blessington, Co. Wicklow] : St. Mary’s National School, [2008]. 159 p. Class no. 17A / 68

Cormack, Robin. Icons. London : British Museum Press, 2007. 144 p. Class no. 19 Icon / 165

Crowley, Michael. To Cape Town and Back : the story of the Sacred Heart Missionaries in Apartheid South Africa. [S.l.] : Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 2008. 120 p. Class no. 15 Africa / C.5

Dunne, Catherine. An Unconsidered People : the Irish in London. Dublin : New Island, 2003. 243 p. Class no. 29 E.P.S. / D.8

Ferguson, Catherine. Margaret Anna Cusack (the Nun of Kenmare), Knock : November 1881 – December 1883. Warrenpoint, Co. Down : Gaelbooks, c2008. 100 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Cus

Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom : the coming of global Christianity. Rev. and expanded ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. 316 p. Class no. 4. G / 39

John Paul II, Pope. The Theology of the Body : human love in the divine plan. Boston, MA : Pauline Books & Media, 1997. 603 p. Class no. 8 M.T. / 111

Mayes, Frances. Shrines : images of Italian worship / Frances Mayes ; photographs by Steven Rothfeld. New York : Doubleday, 2005. 141 p. Class no. 19 Italian Art / 297

Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome. Paul – His Story. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 259 p. Class no. 1. J / 46

Passover Haggadah. English text [by] Koren Publishers, Jerusalem Ltd ; with [reproductions of] illustrations by Joseph ben David of Leipuk. [Israel] : W. Turnowsky Ltd., [ca. 1970]. 64 p. Class no. 25A / Hag

April

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions. Dublin : Veritas, 2009. 36 p. Class no. 4aM / 141

Curtis, Maurice. The Spendid Cause : the Catholic Action Movement in Ireland in the Twentieth Century. Dublin : Original Writing & Greenmount Publications, 2008. 330 p. Class no. 14 / C. 25

Fagan, Seán. What Happened to Sin? Dublin : Columba Press, 2008. 222 p. Class no. 7/ F. 12

Farmar, Tony. Ordinary Lives : three generations of Irish Middle Class Experience 1907, 1932, 1963. Dublin : Gill & MacMillan, 1991. 240 p. Class no. 29 E.P.S. / F.8

Gallagher, Michael Paul. The Disturbing Freshness of Christ : nourishing faith for tomorrow. Dublin : Veritas, 2008. 32 p. Class no. 7. G / 11

Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs. In the Wake of the Celtic Tiger : poverty in contemporary Ireland. Dublin : Veritas, 2009. 40 p. Class no. 29 E.P.S. / I. 2

Meleady, Dermot. Redmond : the Parnellite. Cork : Cork University Press, 2008. 407 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Red

Norman, Edward. The Roman Catholic Church : an illustrated history. London : Thames & Hudson, 2007. 192 p. Class no. 4A / 86

O’Carroll, Ciarán. Paul Cardinal Cullen : portrait of a practical nationalist. Dublin : Veritas, 2008. 321 p. Class no. 29 Biog / Cul

The Glenstal Book of Daily Prayer : a Benedictine prayer book. Dublin Columba Press, 2008. 243 p. Class no. 23 Prayer Books / 61

May

Dunne, Tom (Ed.). History and the Public Sphere : essays in honour of John A. Murphy. Cork : Cork University Press, 2005. 282 p. Class no. 29 Hist (Gen) / D.19

Dunne, Tom (Ed.). The National University of Ireland, 1908-2008 : centenary essays. Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2008. 370 p. Class no. 17A / 69

Edersheim, Alfred. Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ. London : Clarke & Co., 1961. 342 p. Class no. 2. L / 114

Geoghegan, Patrick M. King Dan : the rise of Daniel O’Connell, 1775-1829. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2008. 337 p. 29 Biog / O’Con

Gillispie, Charles Coulson. Genesis and Geology : a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996. 316 p. Class no. 22 / G. 8

Gould, Julius (Ed.). A Dictionary of the Social Sciences. New York, N.Y. : Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. 761 p. Class no. 0 / C. 17

Kearney, Hugh F. Ireland : contested ideas of nationalism and history. Cork : Cork University Press, 2007. 309 p. Class no. 29 Hist (Gen) / K.4

Lysaght, Charles (Ed.). Great Irish Lives. London : Times Books, 2008. 302 p. Class no. 29 Biog (coll) / 44

MacCuarta, Brian. Catholic Revival in the North of Ireland, 1603-41. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2007. 282 p. Class no. 29 Hist (M) / M.23

Mahon, Alyce. Eroticism and Art. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. 334 p. Class no. 19 History of Art / 108

Mulcahy, Rosemarie. Philip II of Spain, Patron of the Arts. Dublin : Four Press, 2004. 350 p. Class no. 19 Spanish Art / 297

Reynolds, Joseph. Grangegorman : psychiatric care in Dublin since 1815. Dublin : Institute of Public Administration in association with the Eastern Health Board, 1992. 336 p. Class no. 29 L.C. (Dublin) / 153

June

Boebé, Sabine. Eines Fursten Irland : auf Pucklers Spuren. Reiher Verl. GmbH, 1991. 388 p. Class no. 29 L.H. (Gen) / 46

De Rosa, Peter. Blessed Among Women : the book of Mary. Peter de Rosa. Dublin : Columba Press, 2005. 208 p. Class no. 11A / DeR

Emmerick, Anna Katherina. Jesus mitten unter den Seinen. Ausgewahlt und herausgegeben von Marie-Theresa Loutrel und Grete Schott. Kevelaer : Butzon & Berker, 1981. 320 p. Class no. 23 Myst / 107

Frye, Northrop. The Great Code : the Bible and literature. San Diego : “A Harvest Book”, 1983. 261 p. Class no. 1 / S. 55

Hederman, Mark Patrick. The Haunted Inkwell : art and our future. Dublin : Columba Press, 2001. 231 p. Class no. 26 L.H.C. / H.6

Kerr, Fergus. Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians : from neo-scholasticism to nuptial mysticism. Oxford : Blackwell, c2007. 230 p. Class no. 7 / K. 9