February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
IRISH EYES
A Callahan Garrity Mystery
Kathy Hogan Trocheck
This is the eighth installment in Kathy Hogan Trocheck’s Callahan Garrity series. This mystery contains what readers have come to expect from Trocheck — witty dialogue, familiar Southern characters with sass and page-turning plotlines — as well as all the elements of good mystery: suspense, murder, deception and suicide. The main character, Callahan Garrity, is forced to confront issues of ethnic identity, betrayal and morality, and to question people she thought were her friends. And she must catch killers before she is the next victim. Harper Collins. 256 pp. $24.
IRISH VOICES
50 Years of Irish Life 1916-66
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Peter Somerville-Large
The author, who has written nine books on Ireland, offers a social history brimming with cultural, domestic and political detail of the early years of the Irish Republic. The large-format volume features 90 photographs. Trafalgar Square Publishing, P.O. Box 257, North Pomfret, VT 05053 (tsquare@sover.net). 320 pp. $35.
NORTH OF THE BORDER
David Canes
The author of this book spent several weeks during the summer of 1993 in Northern Ireland living with Catholic and Protestant families after having received a grant from his alma mater Haverford and the colleges of Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore. "North of the Border" contains a historical overview of Ireland from ancient times up to April 1993. The 1stBooks Library (www.1stbooks.com). 254 pp. $9.95.
SAM HANNA BELL,
A BIOGRAPHY
Sean McMahon
Sean Hanna Bell was born in Glasgow in 1909 of Ulster Protestant emigrants. On the death of his father, a journalist, he was brought "home" to Ireland at the age of 7 to be reared in the Strangford Lough area of County Down, where his acclaimed novel of Ulster rural life, "December Bride" (1951), is set. Bell also worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He died in 1990. Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, PA. 228 pp. $40.