Belfast’s famous wall paintings provide a snapshot of relations between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. More than 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Drew Forrest saw them on a trip to the city
DREW FORREST looks at the fierce academic controversies ignited by South Africa’s most recent hominin find
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
The United States’ vice-president has risen with lightning speed from hardscrabble beginnings
The roots of group violence in the deep past may explain the atrocities that are committed today
The resurgence of Japanese fiction owes much to the controversial genius of Yukio Mishima. Drew Forrest re-examines his final novel cycle
Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine
There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars
DREW FORREST takes in a traditional Gaelic pastime at Ireland’s biggest sports arena