Papillote Press

Reflections of a News Reporter Denis Tuohy Trevor McDonald

$16.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 5.5x8.25 • December 2021 BIO025000 • 978-1-78-812489-8

Denis Tuohy had been a broadcaster in news and current affairs for half a century when he was asked to contribute to BBC Radio Ulster’s Thought for the Day in his native Belfast. This book is a collection of his Thought for the Day pieces over the past few years with a linking commentary about his professional and personal life. He recalls a multi-faith gathering in New York after the killing of Martin Luther King, meeting an integrated Belfast singing group in apartheid South Africa, and taking part as an actor in Over the Bridge, Sam Thompson’s play about bigotry in the Belfast shipyard. Streets and Secret Places is a mix of reflections that have featured in Thought for the Day including insights that have come with experience.

Kenneth Milne

$16.95 • Paperback • 96 pages 5.5x8.25 • May 2022 • REL108020 978-1-78-812536-9

The Church of Ireland traces its history back to the coming of Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century. Kenneth Milne here outlines briefly and simply that history from the beginning, down through the Reformation period, when the church was established as the State church. There followed centuries of plantations and penal laws until eventually, in the nineteenth century, the church was disestablished. The final chapter brings the story through changing times to our own day. The book attempts to tell the story of the Church in the context of Irish history, helping the reader to understand some of the situations in which the Church found itself, and still finds itself. Dr Milne is aware of the importance of writing about the Church’s past in the context of the wider context of Irish history.

How to Make Your PPC Really Useful for the Twenty First Century Patricia Carroll

$12.95 • Paperback • 80 pages 5.5x8.25 • March 2022 • REL016000 978-1-78-812520-8

This book has been written in a year when Parish Pastoral Councils (PPC) could not meet physically due to the Covid 19 pandemic. For many PPCs this meant that some stopped meeting or met on zoom, or at least re-grouped to form the backbone of the parish sanitising committee. It is hoped that those who read this book will have an aha moment, where they find that the purpose of PPC’s becomes more clear to them, and that they can begin to imagine the part they can play in the pastoral development of their parish. The role of the PPC is explored relating this to the purpose of the parish community, debunking the myth that the PPC is a committee. It also looks at what can be called the five P’s of the PPC: Pastoral, Prayerful, Partnership, Planning and Participation. The whole notion of discernment for pastoral action is explored and how this relates to the ongoing prayer-filled reflection of the PPC and the parish community. Then there is an in-depth exploration into the whole notion of partnership and the implications for how the PPC relates to the parish community.

Mac Donald Dixon

$16.95 • Paperback • 200 pages • 6x8 March 2022 • FIC050000 978-1-83-804153-3

A crime story set in the rural Caribbean where traditional allegiances and a flawed criminal justice system provide a backdrop to the rape and murder of a young girl. When her father is accused of the crime, her brother joins the police to try and clear their father’s name. While the suspect languishes in jail on remand, the young detective investigates other suspects. HIs mother remains loyal to her husband but does anyone else and who - if anyone - knows the truth?