Elizabeth Boyle, . London: Routledge, 2021, xii, 205 pp.

The Irish are a nation of poets; they inhabit the Isle of Saints. So what Ireland’s early bards and teachers had to say on the Christian message makes a good book. In a monograph of five chapters, Dr Boyle (of NUI, Maynooth) hence tells us much, with the right combination of didactic and lyrical.