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‘Historia del Huerfano’, or The Orphan’s Story, charts the progress of a 14-year-old Spaniard who leaves Granada and heads to the Americas to seek his fortune. File photograph: iStock
‘Cursed’ Spanish imperial age novel published after 400 years
  • Europe
  • February 2, 2018, 22:14

Four hundred years after it was written, a lost and supposedly cursed Golden Age novel chronicling the splendour, adventure and violence of Spain’s im(...)

Victor Flores: “The city’s libraries are always filled with people and I love that. Sometimes there’s no space for me to sit down.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
New to the Parish: ‘Ireland is like a chicken in a battery farm’

Victor Flores always imagined Ireland to be a big country. “I thought of it as a huge place because so much has come from this country: Halloween, Dr(...)

‘Salvia Amistad’ and ‘Cerro Potosi’; growing together in an Irish garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Spectacular Salvias guaranteed to satisfy

I have a new love in my life; no, not the human variety , but a vast, versatile and geographically diverse genus of plants that are extraordinarily(...)

The youth was killed in the town of Colquechaca, some 300km south east of Bolivia’s capital La Paz. Photograph: Google Maps
Bolivian villagers bury rape suspect alive
  • World
  • June 7, 2013, 13:17

Villagers in Bolivia’s southern highlands buried a teenager alive in the grave of the woman he was suspected of having raped and murdered. Poli(...)