Una Mullally: How companies can effect actual change this International Women’s DayThe empty rhetoric of female empowerment within corporate culture makes me queasyTue Mar 03 2020 - 13:40
Thommas Kane Byrne: ‘Anxiety can be quite isolating and stressful’Life Lessons: Thommas Kane Byrne, actor and playwrightMon Mar 02 2020 - 06:00
How did Yeats interpret his own poetry? A clue lies in an Irish Times article from 1923From the archive: ‘Mr Yeats was enjoying the satisfaction of recognition in his own lifetime’Sun Mar 01 2020 - 07:00
Dublin nightclub drops entry fee and asks for charity donation insteadPygmalion booker says link up with Peter McVerry Trust will run throughout yearWed Feb 26 2020 - 18:16
Vicky Phelan: ‘My motto for life is to live for the moment’Life Lessons: Vicky Phelan, cervical cancer advocate and author, on overcoming life's big challengesMon Feb 24 2020 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil must ask ‘what do we stand for?’Sinn Féin has benefitted from Fine Gael’s vapid neoliberalism and lack of engagement on issues that matter to peopleMon Feb 24 2020 - 01:00
How Maura O’Connell won over more than just women’s heartsFrom the archive: In 1981, Maura O’Connell was voted the number one female singer by Hot PressSun Feb 23 2020 - 07:00
Do you have a Caroline Flack relationship with social media?Many of us engage with social media without considering why. Our usage patterns need a rethinkSat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00
Kate Dolan: ‘Working in film can be a struggle. You get a lot of rejection’Life Lessons: Kate Dolan, writer and director of films, music videos and commercialsMon Feb 17 2020 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Ireland's social revolution sparked change electionThe recent referendums showed the Irish electorate that radical change is possibleMon Feb 17 2020 - 01:00
When the Church blamed dances for the spread of tuberculosis in IrelandFrom the Archive: ‘The remedy will come, not from legislation, but from the common sense of the people themselves’Sun Feb 16 2020 - 07:00
‘Culturally, we’re so afraid of emotion. We repress them but they pop up elsewhere and cause havoc’Life Lessons: Oonagh Murphy, theatre directorMon Feb 10 2020 - 06:00
Una Mullally: SF is tapping into young people imagining something differentThis election is rooted in the recession, housing crisis, and the politicisation of young peopleMon Feb 10 2020 - 01:00
A guide to Dublin’s old ‘junk’ marketsFrom the archive: ‘The true junk lover knows that time is even more essential than money to successful junk hunts’Sun Feb 09 2020 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Perhaps we are all a bunch of socialists after allThe election campaign suggests people value a booming society over a booming economyMon Feb 03 2020 - 09:47
‘Moving to Canada in the dead of winter was the biggest challenge I’ve ever faced’Life Lessons: Nealo, rap artistMon Feb 03 2020 - 06:00
The evolution – and disappearance – of Brigid’s cross in RTÉ’s logoFrom the archive: The distinctive and iconic design was removed by the station in 1995Sat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00
Hugh Wallace: The day I stopped drinking changed my lifeLife Lessons: It was a new beginning, with new work, says the architect and RTÉ presenterMon Jan 27 2020 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Those attacking Sinn Féin have become cheerleaders in reverseIrish young people are politicised not by old-fashioned tribalism but along issuesMon Jan 27 2020 - 01:00
How the press reacted when jazz music came to DublinFrom the archive: ‘A new form of music introduced from Africa probably’Sun Jan 26 2020 - 07:00
Jo Spain: ‘Sometimes I worry I’m not worrying enough’Lessons Learned: ‘When I decided to write my first book, I thought people would think I was daft but a good friend said to me “why not you?”’Mon Jan 20 2020 - 06:00
Fine Gael shows its detachment from votersAbstractions of Brexit more comfortable for the party than homelessness and gang crimeMon Jan 20 2020 - 01:00
The long history of linen-making in IrelandFrom the archive: In 1917, The Irish Times printed an article about ‘our debt to William III’ for his contribution to the Irish textile industrySun Jan 19 2020 - 07:00
Vyvienne Long on her new album: ‘I will stand over this work until I breathe my last’Life Lessons: Singer, cellist and composer on challenges, influences and achievementsMon Jan 13 2020 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Reaction to Megxit reveals worst excesses of fandomMeghan Markle finds herself in a toxic fan ecosystem fuelled by tabloid press narrativesMon Jan 13 2020 - 01:00
The day the SDLP was formed ‘in the spirit of optimism’From the archive: ‘There has been a need in Northern Ireland for a strong political alternative to the Unionist Party’Sun Jan 12 2020 - 07:00
Una Mullally: This general election will be about privilegeProsperity now is very public, and a lot of inequalities are very hiddenMon Jan 06 2020 - 01:00
Fake beauty news? ‘Wrinkles completely removed in 20 minutes’From the archive: Was this article in 1913 an early example of ‘native advertising’?Sun Jan 05 2020 - 07:00
Una Mullally: We can use the new decade to claw back freedom from technologyIt used to be a privilege to be on social media, but it is now a privilege to be off itMon Dec 30 2019 - 06:00
Christmas Day swim at the Forty Foot, a longstanding Dublin traditionFrom the archive: If you’re taking the plunge over the festive season, remember the feminists who did so before youWed Dec 25 2019 - 07:00
When Brian Lenihan played Santa Claus for Ireland’s refugeesFrom the Archive: A 1979 Christmas party for Vietnamese refugees saw coconut cake and Molly MaloneTue Dec 24 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: With the end of Le Galaxie, the glow has gone out of Irish musicThe band offered a sparkling antidote to the misery and dourness of the recessionMon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00
Mitch Albom: There is no pain that compares to losing a childLife Lessons: ‘Success is what matters the most’ is the worst advice the author has gotMon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00
Thirty years ago, My Left Foot reinvented Irish filmFrom the archive: Looking back at one of the greatest nights ever in Irish cinemaSun Dec 22 2019 - 07:00
The decade in music: Individual expression flourishes in uncertain timesThe behemoths got bigger in a landscape where streaming giants took overSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decadeThe Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00
‘If someone seems to have all the answers, run’Life Lessons: Dan Colley, theatre director and dramaturgMon Dec 16 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: How to combat misinformation this ChristmasChristmas dinner is as good a place as any to promote literacy on internet algorithmsMon Dec 16 2019 - 06:00
The day priests intervened to stop strikers’ children being sent to EnglandFrom the archive: 50 boys and girls were brought to Tara Street Baths to be washed and sent awaySun Dec 15 2019 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Chinese millionaires taking advantage of golden Irish visasApplication numbers for our immigrant investor programme are rocketing in IrelandMon Dec 09 2019 - 07:10
Fontaines DC come home: Vicar Street erupts in ecstasyReview: Dublin’s gentrification is inspiring a generation of musicians, led by Fontaines D.C.Mon Dec 09 2019 - 06:17
December 8th: The day when people ‘from the country’ came to Dublin to shopFrom the archive: December 8th used to mark the start of the Irish Christmas seasonSun Dec 08 2019 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael has been complicit in debasing discourseVerona Murphy’s candidacy saw the party validating toxic forms of discussionMon Dec 02 2019 - 06:00
When drag queens were first mentioned in The Irish TimesFrom the archive: In 1971, Danny La Rue had just returned to his hometown of Cork for the first time in 18 yearsSun Dec 01 2019 - 06:00
‘Being open and confident in yourself is a radical act of empowerment’Life Lessons: Lisa Connell, managing editor of Gay Community NewsMon Nov 25 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Far-right ideology is entering mainstream politics in IrelandAlarm bells are ringing, and we must stop downplaying and appeasing this shiftMon Nov 25 2019 - 06:00
Much more than ‘Paddy rap’: How the pioneers of Irish hip-hop made their markFrom the archive: Scary Eire first appeared in The Irish Times on December 19th, 1992Sun Nov 24 2019 - 06:00
‘The death of a parent irrevocably alters your sense of self in the world’Life Lessons: Photographer Dorje de BurghMon Nov 18 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Helping bullies is key to combating bullyingSchools need gender and sexuality alliances to foster tolerance and wellbeingMon Nov 18 2019 - 06:00
When foot and mouth disease ground Ireland to a haltFrom the archive: ‘A catastrophe looms,’ read The Irish Times editorial in March 2001Sun Nov 17 2019 - 06:00
