The Irish Times

The Irish Times view on Saoirse Ronan: star power

The four-time Oscar nominee is the most successful Irish film actor ever – and she is still only 25

Fri Jan 17 2020 - 19:30

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’

The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home

Sat Dec 21 2019 - 06:03

Saoirse Ronan agrees sale of Greystones home for more than €1.6m

Another well-known Irish actor and leading sportsperson both interested in star’s house

Wed Nov 20 2019 - 16:00

Saoirse Ronan puts her €1.5m Greystones home on the market

The Golden Globe-winning actor recently bought a home in Notting Hill, in London

Wed Sept 18 2019 - 10:50

Saoirse Ronan in Little Women: What’s all the fuss about?

Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film is the book’s eighth screen adaptation. So why the excitement?

Tue Aug 20 2019 - 00:12

Booksmart: Terrific directorial debut from actor Olivia Wilde

Review: Delightful film follows two friends as they party their way into oblivion during last week of high school

Fri May 24 2019 - 05:00

Eighth Grade: Bo Burnham’s startlingly honest portrayal of growing up

Review: The film excels as a character study of singular sensitivity

Thu Apr 25 2019 - 06:00

Jessie Buckley and Hugh O’Conor scoop Dublin film festival prizes

Critics’ circle awards wrap up Dublin International Film Festival 2019

Mon Mar 04 2019 - 10:57

The 50 best films of 2018

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Mon Dec 10 2018 - 06:00

Dublin Feminist Film Festival screens terrific ‘The Seen and Unseen’

Few women have senior creative roles in film. Kamila Andini’s movie is an exception

Thu Nov 22 2018 - 11:46

Why has a podcast about a girl’s teenage diaries become a hit with men?

'Berkhamsted Revisited': 'When you’re a teenager, the other gender is completely alien'

Fri Sept 07 2018 - 06:00

‘Saoirse Ronan is the greatest. We're such close friends’

‘Lady Bird’ was a big break for the US actor Beanie Feldstein, who will star in Caitlin Moran's ‘How to Build a Girl’

Fri Jun 29 2018 - 06:00

The 10 best films of the first half of 2018

Donald Clarke: Only two Oscar nominees for best picture make our six-month review list

Wed Jun 27 2018 - 06:05

Oscars 2018: One powerful speech, one predictable ceremony

Analysis: Frances McDormand cares a lot, but doesn’t give a damn who she offends

Mon Mar 05 2018 - 16:29

Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions

Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?

Sat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00

Oscar Wilde Awards: Green carpet and ‘Kerrygold Ice Cream’

The sort-of-Irish Oscar Wilde bash is now a key pre-Academy Awards event

Fri Mar 02 2018 - 16:08

This time it really is the end of the world. And who’s to blame? The young.

You young know nothing as my generation has the monopoly on wisdom

Fri Feb 23 2018 - 05:00

First look: Galway’s new art-house cinema, a ‘beautiful tower of song’

€9.5m build went over time and budget after original contractor went into liquidation

Wed Feb 21 2018 - 11:28

Lady Bird: Flawless Saoirse Ronan in a wholly wonderful film

Review: The film’s genius is its ability to root us in Lady Bird’s perspective. But it does more

Tue Feb 20 2018 - 10:08

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’

The three-time Oscar nominee on fame, Hollywood scandals, and the abortion referendum

Sat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00

The weekend’s TV: Saoirse Ronan meets Graham Norton

Plus: The Late Late Show Valentine’s Special and wall-to-wall Winter Olympics

Fri Feb 09 2018 - 06:00

Will Saoirse Ronan win an Oscar? Watch the SAG Awards to find out

The ‘Lady Bird’ star faces tough competition in this year’s best female actor category

Sun Jan 21 2018 - 06:00

Greta Gerwig: Our New VBF

The actor and writer has now directed ‘Lady Bird’, one of the hottest movies around

Sat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00

Saoirse Ronan one of only three best actress Ifta nominees

Maudie, Handsome Devil, Cardboard Gangsters, Three Billboards, The Farthest dominate

Thu Jan 11 2018 - 14:21

Saoirse Ronan edges closer to an Oscar. Martin McDonagh still has a fight on his hands

Analysis: The Golden Globes over, thoughts turn to the most open Oscar race in decades

Mon Jan 08 2018 - 17:30

Saoirse Ronan wins best actress at Golden Globes

Martin McDonagh wins best screenplay; attendees dress in black

Mon Jan 08 2018 - 06:42

Nick Hornby: 'Sersh, I have another script for you. Don’t rush into anything'

The ‘Brooklyn’ writer and Arsenal fan reveals the highlights of his cultural radar

Sat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00

Saoirse Ronan the star attraction at Dublin screening of Lady Bird

Irish star may become only third female actor to score three Oscar nominations before age 23

Sat Dec 09 2017 - 00:22

Saoirse Ronan’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ is unfunny Paddywhackery

Saoirse Ronan – national treasure and a total pro – deserves better material than this

Mon Dec 04 2017 - 09:32

Saoirse Ronan teaches America how to pronounce her name on Saturday Night Live

The 23-year-old actor and U2 made the latest episode a very Irish affair

Sun Dec 03 2017 - 06:00

Presidential libraries are uniquely American. Will the next be uniquely Trumpian?

America Letter: LBJ’s covered Vietnam, Nixon’s Watergate; Obama’s is wholly digital

Sat Nov 11 2017 - 01:00

McDonagh wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto film festival

The prize for London-Irish author’s film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ raises hopes for Oscar success

Sun Sept 17 2017 - 19:50

‘The woman Ronald Reagan calls Mommie’

Profile of former first lady Nancy Reagan, first published in 1986

Sun Mar 06 2016 - 21:07

Dallas Now: Trying to Forget

Tourists still gawp at the grassy knoll, but today’s city is an entirely different place to the Dallas of 1963

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00

What's another year?

Quite a challenge, actually, if it’s 1965 and you’re Lyndon B Johnson, with a war raging in Vietnam, plus race and student riots at home, and you ‘don’t know what the hell to do’

Tue Feb 26 2013 - 12:50