The evolution of a global icon

{ "b" : "Mandela: A Critical Life," , "cite" : "by Tom Lodge, Oxford, €22.05."}

The grandiose trappings of a state funeral could not disguise the fact that by the time Charles Haughey died this year, for a figure who once excited such strong and violent passions two decades ago, his passing was greeted with a large degree of public indifference.

Time had simply moved on and he was part of a world ...