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2 May 2015

9:00 AM

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

The Real Archbishop Mannix: From the Sources James Franklin, G.O. Nolan, Michael Gilchrist

Connor Court, pp.300, $29.95, ISBN: 9781925138344

Mannix Brenda Niall

Text Publishing, Melbourne, pp.464, £50.00, ISBN: 97819221821

Some of us habitually quote Orwell’s correct comparison of producing first-person prose to ‘dosing yourself with some … very deleterious and very habit-forming drug.’ But concerning Daniel Mannix, first-person prose is inescapable. Though His Grace died 52 years back, the Mannix Wars still echo to (Wilfred Owen’s simile, of course) ‘the sob and clubbing of the gunfire.’

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R. J. Stove lives in Melbourne and underwent Catholic baptism in 2002.

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