A new time
The Broadstone Gallery and Studios is one of a new generation of innovative spaces to open in Ireland over the last few years. Billy Leahy visits its current exhibition, Here, There and Otherwise
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Curry, the world conqueror
Lizzie Collingham's latest book looks at the origins and history of curry, which, from its humble beginnings in India, has become one of the most popular and internationalised foods on the planet. William Grimes digs in
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Searching for the promised land
The voice of Martin Luther King echoed loud in a society of racist violence and murder, in a country whose FBI director lied to the president to protect the Ku Klux Clan and where the bias of all-white juries and the media was blatant. Author Taylor Branch, rather than writing a biography of King himself, paints a picture of the country he tried to change. By Anthony Lewis
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The great delegator
A communicator with an uncanny skill to rally America and hoist her up when she was in need of a confidence boost. Adrian Wooldridge reviews a new biography of Ronald Reagan
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Faith based
Rosen, a straightforward and congenial narrator, guides us ably through her nine years as a student at Keswick Christian School in St. Petersburg, Florida. She offers a multitude of detailed portraits – most depicting a decidedly shabby environment. The wooden swings in the schoolyard "would leave splinters and flaking red paint on the back of your thighs." Attending Bible camp meant "a sweltering two-hour ride in the church van" and "swimming in an algae-covered lake." She has a particular knack for the humiliating detail. Keswick moms wore "vinyl mock-croc pumps and polyester-blend dresses from Sears." Visiting missionaries have "out-of-date clothes" and "badly cut hair." Affection and aversion seem to go everywhere hand in hand.
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The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth
Now Duncade offers all the usual holiday activities of fishing, boating and beachcombing but, in times past, was notorious for pirates who used false lights to wreck ships on the rocks. In fact the title of the book, The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth, refers to a particular row of rocks where on certain nights the dead pirate's teeth can be seen gleaming in the dark. Or can they?
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The 1.35 billion sting: how the religious orders outmanoeuvred the State
We are not saying any of the religious leaders who negotiated the deal with the State acted dishonestly or dishonourably, rather that the some of the religious orders had information on the scale of abuse that should have suggested the compensation would be far greater than then estimated.
By Mary Raftery
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The indemnity negotiations
The indemnity deal agreed between Michael Woods and the religious orders was dressed up by the addition of properties wh...
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Genocide in slow motion in Darfur
Despite vast documentary proof of atrocities, the world has looked the other way as genocide has unfolded in Darfur. The White House couldn't be bothered, the UN has been ineffectual and the EU spectacularly uncoordinated. Yet, since September 2005, the situation in Darfur has been getting worse. By Nicholas D Kristof
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The way to his heart
Cookery correspondent and agony aunt Darina Allen gives some ideas for what to cook for your man on Valentine's day
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The blaspheming of Islam is not protected by freedom of speech
There is no absolute right to freedom of speech. There is no "right" to defame people or groups and our laws reflect this robustly in the libel laws and other laws. These laws protect an entitlement to respect, which we all recognise as an important (the most important?) ingredient in social relations. The contention that there is a "right" to blaspheme the sacred prophets of religions is a nonsense. There is no such right, our culture recognises no such right, the liberal, democratic tradition, which is much spoken of these days, acknowledges no such right.
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A patriotic intellectual
Although in politics for just 27 years years, Taoiseach for just over five years, Garret FitzGerald has been and remains involved in public affairs in Ireland for over 50 years, as a politician, a columnist and campaigner. He has had a very considerable influence on Irish politics, far more than that attaching to his period as Taoiseach, on Church-State relations, on Northern Ireland, on transport, on our involvement in the European Community, on foreign affairs.
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Garret on Haughey in 1979
(An edited version of the speech delivered n the Dail by Garret FitzGerald, then leader of the Opposition, on 9 December 1979, on the nomination of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach).
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French fears over fries
With more than a million French eating in McDonald's every day and children rapidly getting fatter, obesity has become a hot topic in French politics. Elaine Sciolino reports
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Morality, Politics, Justice and Charlie Haughey
 Vincent Browne interviewed Garret on the occasion of this 80th birthday in 2006 for Village magazine. The interview is republished here from the Village archive, which is part of Politico's subscription magazine archive. Subscribe here.
VB: Did you have a happy early childhood?
GF: Totally.
VB: Happy adolescence?
GF: Yeah, sure.
VB: Were you close to both parents?
GF: Yes.
VB: Always?
GF: Always, yes. I was really hostile to one of my brothers for years because he rowed with my father.
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The sorry state of the Union
The US government is unpatriotic and illegal; Americans now live in a dictatorship. They should hold demonstrations to send their idiot president back to Texas... Gore Vidal offers an alternative State of the Union address
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