Rosita Boland: Our defunct corner shop wasn’t fancy but it has left a gaping holeA derelict building in any city is a building with no soulThu Nov 25 2021 - 06:00
I’ve eaten roadkill, kangaroo and cormorant, but there’s one meat I won’t touchRosita Boland: I went feral while hitching across Australia, but still couldn’t stomach some foodsMon Nov 22 2021 - 13:00
Rosita Boland: The road trip that turned me into a born-again foragerHow shamefully ignorant we are about the free, wild larder around us in IrelandThu Nov 18 2021 - 06:00
Roast camel hump and calf brains in jelly: Gastronomic cooking, 1960s-styleRosita Boland: Songbirds were eaten in vast quantities and turtle soup was an ‘aristocratic’ dishThu Nov 11 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: There is no rule that our greatest friendships must be with people our ageThe strange magician of time has brought me friends from different decadesThu Nov 04 2021 - 06:00
The president’s pen: Letters to and from Ireland’s nine heads of stateNew book compiles correspondence sent and received by Ireland’s presidentsSat Oct 30 2021 - 06:00
‘Perfect’, the two-syllable word that has become a default responseRosita Boland: I used to like the word ‘perfect’. It’s cancelled for me nowThu Oct 28 2021 - 09:56
Rosita Boland: An Indian gallery crammed full of English crystalA monumental collection of Birmingham craftsmanship on display half a world awayThu Oct 21 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: The very Irish term ‘blow-in’ stigmatises newcomersA particularly Irish way to put people down, it says they’ll never belong, no matter how hard they tryThu Oct 14 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: ‘What would you do?’ She stared at me. I was completely taken abackI wondered if the woman in the charity shop told this terrible story to many of her customersThu Oct 07 2021 - 06:00
Shannon Town: the ‘planned’ town that got left behindFour decades and several masterplans later, Shannon Town is having an identity crisisSun Oct 03 2021 - 06:00
A life in stone: Sculptor Imogen Stuart reflects on her life and her work‘I never know how things are going to turn out until they are finished’, says 94-year-old artistSat Oct 02 2021 - 06:00
Dial-a-Seanchaí: Irish folklore on your phoneSeanchaí were geographers, historians and psychologists with deep connections to the landscapeSat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
‘Someone has been stealing the priest’s breakfast milk. Theft is unacceptable in this school’The reverend mother called us to a special assembly. What crime had been committed?Tue Sept 07 2021 - 06:00
The September issues: I want Burberry’s gold lamé trench coat, Prada’s green knitted dressRosita Boland reads the September editions of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and TatlerFri Aug 27 2021 - 06:00
36 hours in Clifden: ‘Golfgate certainly raised awareness of the town’‘Fully booked’ is a common refrain in the Galway town. Our series on Irish tourism continuesSat Aug 21 2021 - 06:00
The more beautiful the part of Ireland, the filthier it isRosita Boland: What is it about us as a people that we seem incapable of putting rubbish in bins?Wed Aug 18 2021 - 06:00
Sarah Ferguson’s bonkless bonkbuster: insufferably long and unforgivably dullQueen’s former daughter-in-law has written her 77th book, a strangely chaste Mills & Boon novelFri Aug 06 2021 - 06:00
36 hours in Ballybunion: ‘Main Street has become a bit of a disaster’Our series on Irish tourist spots continues with a visit to the Kerry town, where little has changedSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
My escape and recovery from life as ‘sex cult girl’Bexy Cameron spent her childhood in the Children of God cult, expecting to die as a teenagerSat Jul 24 2021 - 14:00
36 hours in Clonakilty: ‘Airbnb has a lot to answer for’Property prices rise in west Cork town which is becoming a ‘very sought-after place to live’Sat Jul 24 2021 - 06:00
Tramore: ‘There is a perception it attracts the wrong kind. Things have changed’‘It used to be pints of Guinness all day long. Now we sell more coffee than all other drinks’Sat Jul 17 2021 - 06:00
Ireland, 1966: ‘A visitor realises after a few days that he has seen few fat people’A US book portrayed Ireland as a land of subservient housewives and men in pubsWed Jul 14 2021 - 06:00
36 hours in Carrick-on-Shannon: A tourist town with no one aroundCovid-19 has had enormous impact on Co Leitrim town that depends on visitorsSun Jul 11 2021 - 00:00
Lake people of Lough Derg: ‘I love looking at the water. It makes me calm’Ireland’s third-biggest lake casts a unique spell over the locals living on or close to itSat Jul 03 2021 - 06:00
Jo Spain: ‘It wasn’t a peaceful childhood. I saw a lot of drugs and crime’The crime novelist talked to Bernice Harrison at The Irish Times Summer Nights FestivalThu Jul 01 2021 - 22:00
Ethel Rosenberg: a gruesome death by execution that shocked the world‘I think it is the most horrific story. Her death was so barbaric’ – biographer Anne SebbaSat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Pesto eggs are the new smashed avocado. But are they as nice?Substituting pesto for oil, this photogenic dish looks healthy, fresh and appetisingFri Jun 25 2021 - 10:00
Assistance dogs in schools: ‘I have learned to talk things out, and it has really helped a lot’Schools cover the cost of food for the dog, any veterinary treatment and general upkeepSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
A lonely Sligo death still shrouded in mysteryIn 2009 the body of Peter Bergmann was washed up at Rosses Point, but who was he?Sat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
What the Best Place to Live in Ireland award did for WestportWestport won the 2012 competition. Residents have some advice for this year’s entrantsSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Meghan Markle has written a children’s book. It’s awfulThe Bench apparently began as a message to Harry. It should have stayed between themWed Jun 09 2021 - 13:24
Sarah Winman: ‘Governments fear people having empathy’Actor turned novelist on Florence flood novel and how pandemic may stifle memoryTue Jun 08 2021 - 05:00
Wicklow bookstore owner appeals for successor to village businessJanet Hawkins of Blessington Book Store will be on hand to advise whoever takes overTue May 18 2021 - 10:15
A year living alone: ‘I have found the lockdowns soul-destroying’‘A fourth lockdown would destroy me’: Five people share their experience of living alone through every lockdownSat May 08 2021 - 00:00
Living legends and celebrity stallion welcome visitors againThe National Stud and a number of heritage sites reopened this week, providing a change of scene for locked-down localsSat May 01 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I have a confession to make – music does nothing for meMusic passes through my consciousness like water flowing downhill. I can never retain itWed Apr 28 2021 - 06:00
Annie McCarrick, Deirdre Jacob, Fiona Pender... ‘There must be witnesses out there’Eight women who disappeared in Ireland are the subject of a new audiobook from AudibleSun Apr 25 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: By admitting to feeling lonely, I feel I’m failing in some wayI wake up wondering how long it would take for someone to find me if I died in my sleepWed Apr 21 2021 - 06:00
The landmark paternity suit that ruined an entire familyBoy 11963 is an incredible story of a life changed forever by a Longford scandalSun Apr 18 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I stood under a tree in case Goldilocks showed upA pot of steaming porridge in a Dublin park and other mysteries found while walkingWed Apr 14 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: When this is all over I’m going non-essential shoppingCall me a barbarian, but when lockdown ends, the theatre is not the first place I want to goWed Apr 07 2021 - 06:00
‘From the minute I started to write, I didn’t care if the house fell down around me’Chef-turned-writer Louise Kennedy creates a stir with her debut book of short storiesSat Apr 03 2021 - 00:00
My dinner guests will need reminding of how to behave in Good SocietyRosita Boland: My servants are all on the pandemic unemployment paymentWed Mar 31 2021 - 06:00
Return of the penpal: ‘It feels nice to spread some joy around the place’American in Dublin Liz Maguire has accrued an astonishing 80-plus penpals in the last year aloneTue Mar 30 2021 - 17:00
Rosita Boland: A tiny cardboard Galway is not the one I wantIn the late 1990s I built my own Galway, roaming the city day and nightWed Mar 24 2021 - 06:00
Three lockdowns in, what has a meal-kit restaurant learned?Restaurants all over Ireland have reinvented themselves. Host in Ranelagh tells how it worksSun Mar 14 2021 - 06:00
Naoise Dolan: ‘I feel pressure to tell people I am autistic, in case I am too blunt’It has been a truly extraordinary year for the Dublin writerSat Mar 13 2021 - 06:00
I’d so wanted a Simone Rocha x H&M capsule piece. They weren’t just clothes. They were hopeI was up before sunrise today to queue online. The website taunted me to keep tryingThu Mar 11 2021 - 13:34
Piers Morgan’s diabolical behaviour: How much of a tantrum can a man throw?Rosita Boland: The TV presenter’s mystifying obsession with Meghan Markle has hit a new lowTue Mar 09 2021 - 13:45
