Maura Laverty was something of a grand dame of the kitchen in 1960’s Ireland, and her cookbook “Full and Plenty : Complete Guide to Better Cooking was a feature of many Irish homes of the era. First published in 1960, it was reprinted in an expanded 1966 second edition.  In 1985 Anvil Books reissued the book as two seperate paperbacks , and later by Mercier Press in 2009.  
The original book was sponsored by the Irish Flour Millers Association, so as a result was baking centered. Laverty was something of a Renaissance woman, with a talent for writing and broadcasting as well as cookery,  she started by writing newspaper articles , and then progressed to writing novels (some of which were banned) and plays. Her cookbook came about from her love of food which was shaped by the time she spent in Spain working as a governess. Her first cookbook was commissioned by the Irish government and its intention was to show Irish housewives how to make do with what little food they had at their disposal in the war years and after. 
This is a 2009 Mercier Press edition - it is not the full text of the original ( it omits some of the biographical and introductory essays) 
The recipes themselves are not overly detailed, as this book was aimed at those who are already capable as cooks. 
Paperback. 160 pages. Delivery within Ireland included. 
As an Assumptionist priest and chaplain working in the Hautepierre Hospital in Strasbourg, Denis Ledogar spent much of his life comforting, consoling and learning from those in the last stages of life and from their families. I
n Only Love Breaks Open the Tombs , he brings together the testimonies of patients he has encountered who candidly share their thoughts on life, loss and family as they contend with failing health and the spectre of mortality. The goal of this book is to address ‘the delicate subject of the accompaniment of the human being at the end of life’ and is centered on ‘seven stages’ which the author has witnessed in those approaching death. This moving account of one man’s experience offering pastoral care to the terminally ill not only demonstrates how a patient’s final days can be lived with dignity and meaning but how, in ministering to those who are ill, we demonstrate that it is only love that ‘breaks open the tombs’.
 
 
 
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