Small, grey or pale brown and trembling in the autumn breeze, liberty cap mushrooms grow in upland pastures across the UK. Drab they may be, but these fungi are among the most controversial – and inte

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Although it’s now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history, reveals Patrick Galbraith

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Fred de Fossard

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land