Ancestry
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
The Scullabogue martyrs
A S H Smyth remembers his Quaker ancestors killed June 5, during the Irish rebellion of 1798
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
