Before a recent walking trip in the fertile mountains of Cantabria and Asturias, I believed shepherds, along with the dinosaurs, had joined the ranks of the extinct.   This is not yet the case, I was amazed to discover, but they are certainly an endangered species.

  I had hardly left...

Croghan Man and Cloneycavan Man: the ethics of display

The fascinating display of “bog bodies” in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin, poses many interesting questions.  The display left me wondering why I was so blithely comfortable in spite of the "artefacts"...