It is Fintan O’Toole’s Stocking Filler and one of Colm Tóibín’s Books of the Year. The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan is getting rave reviews in print and over the airwaves:
John Banville in the Financial Times
Andrew O’Hagan in the Irish Times
Michael Ryan in the Irish Times
Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times
Colm Tóibín in the New Statesman
Interview with Harriet Gilbert, The Strand, BBC World Service, 6 November
Interview with Pat Kenny, Today with Pat Kenny, RTE One, 6 November (mp3 download)
Visit the Book of Kells Exhibition.
Estelle Gittins