Newfoundland and Labrador have syddered much hardship, most recently the disappearance of the cod industry, a mainstay of livelihood. And yet John Gimlette's beautifully written book is neither dark nor depressing writes Elizabeth Royte

Billy Leahy looks at Philip Allen's collection of new works at the Kerlin Gallery

Daniel Swift looks at a new book that takes a tour in search of ecumenical understanding between Christianity, Islam and Judaism

Leo Enright was doing his science spot on Morning Ireland during last week's British Association's Festival of Science at Trinity College. On Friday morning his piece was on nanotechnology. "People think,'Oh nano, I understand that, it's amazing what you can squeeze onto a microchip nowadays.'" And then he yelled, building up our confidence, like. "That is NOT what we are talking about here!"

Pure Mule RTÉ 1, Tuesdays, 9.30pm
Victim 0001 RTÉ2, Sunday 8pm
United by 9/11 Sky One, Sunday 9pm
The Death of Celebrity Channel 4,
Sunday 9pm

Billy Leahy looks at the new Desmond Shortt exhibition at the RHA: a collection of dreamlike landscapes which, upon further examination, reveal a more sinister and dangerous air

You'd think the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, at 8.15am on your average work morning would be finishing a toasted bagel, thinking of getting out of the old Bruce Springsteen t-shirt and boxers, marking his page of Plato, switching off Lyric FM, and getting in to the Department to maintain – or some might say establish – justice, equality and law reform.

A jockey struggles with his weight in Health Squad; Jack shows the different directions in which our lives can turn and TG4 weighs in with two great short films. By Dermot Bolger

Colm Toibín reviews a
new book about America's most respected literary critic, Edmund Wilson