Census of the heart: Do Irish people feel happy?As forms were being dropped off and collected from households all over Ireland, a census of a different kind was circulating on social media – a Census of the HeartFri Aug 19 2016 - 08:00
Ada English, a psychiatrist and revoloutionary from Co KerryThis week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is a Cumann na mBan member and friend of DevThu Aug 18 2016 - 06:00
'What do you think of my chimpanzee muff?'The strange world of American artist David McDermott in his Mullingar mansionFri Aug 12 2016 - 10:00
Waterford’s Dora Jordan was an actor and mother of ten children with King William IVThis week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is an 18th century Irish woman who first went onstage as a teenagerWed Aug 10 2016 - 06:00
‘Irlande 66/69’: photographs of Ireland taken in the 1960sThis new book by photographers Nutan and Yellow documents life almost 50 years agoSat Aug 06 2016 - 03:45
British expats in Ireland: You can’t be a ‘stuck-up Brit’West Cork is home to the greatest concentration of British people living in Ireland. What do they think of Ireland – and Brexit?Sat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
What young girls can learn from the KardashiansBroadside: The celebrity family have an interesting message for young girlsSun Jul 24 2016 - 08:00
My big regret? Waiting so long to get my eyes laseredWhen I finally did, in my 30s, it was like magicThu Jul 21 2016 - 11:00
One Dublin house, one week, 1,200 childrenMany of the young guests at St Vincent de Paul’s Sunshine House don’t know the regularity of three meals a dayTue Jul 19 2016 - 06:00
Creative Lab: how to get teenagers interested in artAxis Arts Centre hopes to inspire young Dubliners to follow a creative path to the likes of the National College of Art and DesignSat Jul 16 2016 - 06:00
The day our daughter drownedMore than 100 people drown each year in Ireland. Kayleigh Flynn drowned in 2009, at the age of 16. Her family tell her story and appeal for awareness of water safetySat Jul 16 2016 - 05:00
Hidden stories of abandoned mental hospital revealedAfter we published an anonymous account of life in St Ita's psychiatric institution, a photographer and a doctor were among readers to add to its portrait of life thereSat Jul 09 2016 - 06:00
Michael and Danny Healy-Rae: Gombeen men or political geniuses?Weekend Read: The brothers carved up Co Kerry and took the spoils of two Dáil seats. How did they do it? The voters in Healy-Rae Kingdom speak outSat Jul 09 2016 - 05:45
10-year-old girl wants to make a graffiti robot to cheer up ParisGirl wins a summer fellowship for PhD students to design a robot to paint street artFri Jul 01 2016 - 12:15
Fresh impressions: female portraits on wallsThere’s a severe dearth of women in portaits on Irish walls, and the Royal Irish Academy is doing its bit to redress the balanceSat Jun 25 2016 - 03:00
A Portrane asylum patient: ‘Hopes of my discharge I have consigned to oblivion’This is the story of Gerald, from a fluent but sad letter dated September 1st, 1912. He was admitted on April 17th, 1901Fri Jun 10 2016 - 06:00
‘Isolated from the mainstream’: Portrane asylum in the 1950sA clinician’s eye-opening observations about the facility, from the 1950s on, have come to lightFri Jun 10 2016 - 06:00
Broadside: Can anybody truthfully say that Irish is a necessary language?Rosita Boland: I do not like having my national identity pinned to a language I never use and cannot speakMon May 30 2016 - 06:00
How my father bought the Cliffs of MoherWeekend Read: The Cliffs of Moher are now one of Ireland’s top attractions, but in 1964 the fields leading to them were almost sold to a foreign buyer. Then a council official stepped inFri May 20 2016 - 11:00
Meet the Airbnb hosts in their 60sAbout 1,000 of Ireland’s 7,200 Airbnb hosts are in their 60s. Two such hosts, one from Clontarf and one from Mayo, reveal what led them to open their doorsFri May 13 2016 - 06:00
Dublin through the lens of homelessnessThe ‘In Sight’ project provided disposable cameras for 45 people living on streets.Fri May 06 2016 - 05:00
The 1916 Volunteer and ‘The Irish Times’This newspaper dismissed Edward Keegan when he left his desk to fight in the Easter Rising. Now, to honour him, it has bought his 1916 medal to put on permanent displaySat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Bhutan: the price of paradiseWeekend Read: the tiny Himalayan country, which long ago decided to limit tourism, has decided it’s time to welcome more visitors. Will this pristine kingdom change forever?Sat Jan 16 2016 - 14:00
Burma faces unknown after historic electionMilitary will not want to lose control of power regardless of people’s willTue Nov 17 2015 - 18:18
India: Land of 100 rapes a dayRosita Boland’s reports from India describe a country where children are kidnapped routinely, 27 women are killed every day, and 40 per cent of women have been beaten by their husbands, and rape is shockingly commonWed Nov 04 2015 - 16:00
The missing children of IndiaYou expect parents to be heartbroken if a daughter disappears, but in Delhi things are more complex, Rosita Boland writes in the second part of her seriesMon Nov 02 2015 - 12:00
Rosita Boland’s three questions for Brian FrielAt the MacGill Summer School in 2008 the playwright, a famously reluctant interviewee, finally agreed to talk to ‘The Irish Times’Fri Oct 02 2015 - 17:00
Islands of credibility in a sea of Old Moore missesWith its crazy talk of flying cars and Jennifer Aniston’s broodiness, it seems Old Moore’s Almanac was on the gin when making its September predictionsFri Oct 02 2015 - 06:00
Fabric fit for a princess: Limerick embraces the laceA recent exhibition at the city museum showcased the county’s rich history of lace. Well, if it’s good enough for Kate Middleton . . .Tue Sept 29 2015 - 06:00
‘Half dead’: a town in rural IrelandIn 1989 ‘The Irish Times’ reported on Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, one of many towns then blighted by emigration. A boom and a bust later, it’s still a typical Irish town, fighting to keep its community spirit in the face of a dwindling youth population and struggling main streetSat Sept 19 2015 - 08:00
Waltzing along the Danube in a luxury cruise shipIf you’re looking for a relaxing holiday in luxurious surroundings, an upmarket river cruise could be the answerSat Sept 19 2015 - 03:00
The Queen and us: joining in with our neighbour's birthday partyThere are a number of current European queens but, for most people here, there’s only one Queen to rule them allWed Sept 09 2015 - 18:00
A very mixed month for Old Moore’s predictionsOld Moore’s Almanac had a less than stellar August, as anyone eagerly awaiting a heatwave in Ireland can attestFri Sept 04 2015 - 06:00
Fantasy wrecking ball, part 2: the public art we love to hateWhat’s your least favourite piece of public art? Is it the mad moons on sticks near Kinnegad? the semi- submerged violin near Longford or the famine family on Dublin’s Quay? Tell us in the comments field of this articleSat Aug 22 2015 - 11:13
Analysis: Recovery is not yet being felt in rural areas‘You can see the impact of recession in towns, just by how many people are idle’Mon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
Recovery in Abbeyleix: ‘There is a recovery, but it is ever so slight’Co Laois town, bypassed during recession, is seeing slow growth but it is ‘very, very fragile’Mon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
Recovery in Cavan: Liberty Insurance lay offs were a ‘shock’‘People are starting to relax’ but June’s news that 115 would lose their jobs was a setbackMon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
Summers Past: Rosita Boland goes undercover in Bunratty Castle, 2006Tourists have an endless capacity for daftness. That’s what our correspondent learned while being an apple-pie-making bean an tí for a dayWed Aug 12 2015 - 14:00
Old Moore foresaw the rise of the Japanese robotsLet’s see how Old Moore’s Almanac fared with its predictions for JulyFri Aug 07 2015 - 06:00
Tyler the Creator, the feminist and the twitter abuseAbuse of feminist activist reveals the grim truth of online misogyny, writes Rosita BolandTue Jul 28 2015 - 16:00
Charity begins in the shop windowAnne Marie Keeley, window dresser for Enable Ireland’s charity shops, knows how to get customers through the doorsTue Jul 28 2015 - 06:00
Postcards Revisited: A return to the colourful fishing village of BaltimoreThe last in a series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards: the oldest building in this vintage postcard of the west Cork village has survived, but the red boat met a nastier fate and locals are in conflict about the identities of the coupleFri Jul 24 2015 - 06:00
Postcards Revisited | Skerries: ‘Word is Bono played his first gig here’A series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards: Red Island was a holiday camp in Skerries that operated for three decades. Thin Lizzy and Horslips played the ballroom. As for the food situation, ‘it was a bit like the army’Fri Jul 17 2015 - 11:20
Favourite five: the clothes that are dearest to my heartMost people have a few things in their wardrobe that they just can’t be parted from. Here are five pieces that are interwoven with my life storyTue Jul 14 2015 - 15:00
Lesser Spotted Ireland: The Martello tower and the magic carpet of the Irish seaA series in which Irish Times writers go off the beaten track: ‘The Irish Sea had always seemed to me to lack the drama of the Atlantic, but the night I spend in Sutton Martello tower changes all that’Mon Jul 13 2015 - 06:00
Postcards Revisited: Where did Kilkee’s croquet and Christians go?A series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards. Part 2/4: much is unchanged in this Co Clare holiday resort, but a ‘small private hotel for a Christian endeavour movement’ closed in 2004Fri Jul 10 2015 - 06:00
Two days left to get a piece of Irish invention SugruThe mouldable glue product invented by an Irish woman has raised more than £3m through crowdfunding schemeTue Jul 07 2015 - 13:00
Postcards Revisited: Decades on, the soul of Salthill prom remains intactA series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards. Part 1/4: The look and feel of Salthill promenade as depicted in the vintage postcard has changed remarkably little, although a hotel in the background is now a direct provision centreFri Jul 03 2015 - 18:00
It wasn’t a hot June, but Old Moore was on fireThe predictions in Old Moore’s Almanac about Hugh Hefner, Irish doctors and North Korean ‘craziness’ came almost eerily trueFri Jul 03 2015 - 06:00
Shoptalk: Cork goes retroRetro clothes and homewares shops bring a range of 20th-century designs to the citySat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
