Asia-PacificForced sterilisation victims fight to reopen dark chapter of Japan’s pastBy David McNeill
BooksFighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico, edited by Arthur H MitchellBy Frank MacGabhann
CulturePatrick Freyne: Nature programmes don’t tell you animals are duplicitous bastardsBy Patrick Freyne
MusicMicrodisney, Forbidden Fruit, Nick Cave, LCD Soundsystem: the week’s best rock and popBy Tony Clayton-Lea
OpinionFintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churchesBy Fintan O'Toole
People‘I’m the best estate agent you have – and that’s not me being big-headed’By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
BooksWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981): In praise of older booksBy Julie Parsons
FashionMeghan Markle has brought the five-minute face back into fashion – here’s how to create itBy Laura Kennedy
Fine Art & AntiquesHidden in a bank for 100 years, Irish silver dressing table set is coming homeBy Arminta Wallace
IrelandDecision to return Treaty ports to Free State in 1938 proved ‘completely wrong’By Ronan McGreevy
Fine Art & AntiquesSmall but perfect: US collectors’ Irish art that’s back on the marketBy Arminta Wallace
EnvironmentIs this guy I saw on the Burren a lizard or a snake? Readers’ nature queriesBy Ethna Viney
Fashion‘If it talks like a feminist and supports women like a feminist, then it’s a feminist’By Marian Keyes
Social AffairsCatholic Church failed its own standards in institutions, archbishop saysBy Louise Roseingrave
IrelandVisa outage ‘caused significant disruption for Irish business’By Conor Pope, Mark Hilliard and Louise Roseingrave