BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 35, 7 September 1922, Page 17

BOOK NOTICES

...... J i 1 Daughters of Banba, by Mrs. Concannon.' M. ■H. Gill and Son, Dublin. 1 Price 10/-. A book to keep and to pursue to the bitter end when the usual sort of borrower has forgotten to return it to you. If ''you have read Mrs. Concannon’s omen of 98, which appeared a couple of years ago, you will be prepared for the treat her new book holds for, you. The chapters deal with the women of Erin- in every age and few qf.us will not learn much in the reading of them. The-book is an ideal volume for school prize lists. " . ■.

Ireland :l Elements of Her, Eaiiy"History, by J. J; O'Kelly. • : Gill arid Son, Dublin. 10/6. -'->-.'•' . Mr. O'Kelly, Editor of the. Catholic Bulletin, has done good service in the cause of Ireland in this volume which is a veritable encyclopedia of s information concerning Ireland's ancient history and customs, Ireland's saints and; - scholars, Ireland's schools and churches, Ireland's Golden Age, and Ireland's invasion by Dane and Norman. In this book you will learn how the Irish wanderer, Donatus, was elected Bishop of Fiesole, how St. Ibar's name is so common in Wexford, how the old schools were conducted, what the old legends were, what a literature Ireland had in the past, the pros and cons concerning the Bull of Adrian - IV., and a hundred other interesting things about the old land.' v