The last letters of Ann Lovett and her sister TrishaAnn Lovett’s death 39 years ago was not only a tragedy for her family but also an infamous public scandal. Her sister Trisha died by suicide less than three months laterSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Making Brooklyn in Enniscorthy: ‘Saoirse Ronan was lovely. She had a cup of tea in my kitchen’While the Irish scenes in the novel are set in Enniscorthy, it is extremely rare that the movie of a novel will be filmed in the actual streets and buildings depicted in the original story, as happened with BrooklynSun Jul 09 2023 - 06:30
Moby Dick in Youghal: ‘It was magic. It was just like Hollywood came to town’ In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made, and assesses the legacy they left behindSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
I was underwater in a submersible last weekend. I feel terror and pity for those on the TitanMissing Titanic submarine: On my trip in a submersible, I felt a sharp stab of panic as I comprehended that I was sealed underwaterWed Jun 21 2023 - 15:35
My visit to the Korean border is surreal. Bizarre. Sad. Horrible. Fascinating. Terrifying. Shameful As I look at a funfair – an incongruous sight in the DMZ – we can hear explosionsSun Jun 11 2023 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: Ireland is not as welcoming as we like to believeWe Irish like to portray ourselves as among the most welcoming people in the world. The thing about this notion though is that who we choose to welcome really depends on who they areWed Jun 07 2023 - 05:00
Michael Viney obituary: A life of self-sufficiency and curiosity in Ireland’s wild westEditor of The Irish Times says Viney ‘pioneered a new genre, his deep concern for biodiversity, climate action and sustainable living lighting the path for others to follow’Tue May 30 2023 - 19:00
Inch migrant blockade: ‘I heard a woman shouting: we don’t want them here. It was not subtle’A small rural community has become the scene of the latest protest over the Government’s attempts to find accommodation for refugees in the migrant housing crisisFri May 19 2023 - 13:13
No resolution in sight to asylum seeker dispute at picturesque Co Clare village International Protection applicants bussed from Dublin on Monday to be housed at Magowna House hotelWed May 17 2023 - 16:54
Wavewalker: Suzanne Heywood’s honest story of a makeshift childhood at sea An account of years of what seems very like wilful parental neglect, and the devastating impact this life at sea had on the authorMon May 15 2023 - 05:00
Will new leads help solve the mystery of Annie McCarrick’s disappearance? Gardaí do not now believe the 26-year-old travelled to Wicklow on day she went missingSun May 14 2023 - 13:08
Coronation celebration: The royals are ‘like a nice family we can all look up to’A London church congregation ‘from six continents’ celebrates the coronation of King Charles III: ‘His duty is to serve God’Sun May 07 2023 - 17:00
Waiting for King Charles: Diana and Meghan Markle dominate conversation as crowds gather for coronationAs the crowds stake their place on the Mall for the coronation, talk is more about Diana and Meghan Markle than the new kingSat May 06 2023 - 17:14
Invisibly famous: The brilliant Irish wartime codebreaker who worked at Britain’s Bletchley ParkThe name of Emily Anderson is remembered at University of Galway, where she worked until moving to London. A hundred years later, in 2017, the concert hall there was renamed for herSat May 06 2023 - 05:00
Mobile thrones, a bear with a TikTok and a ‘non-colonial crown’ all present at Westminster Abbey ahead of Charles’s coronationKing Charles's coronation: Royal watchers from home and abroad have descended on the capital to witness historyFri May 05 2023 - 15:43
Girl who almost hit Joe Biden with a sliotar says ‘it was such a bad shot’During the president’s visit to Farmleigh, Lucy Bourke (11) hit a sliotar uncomfortably close to Biden’s personFri Apr 14 2023 - 15:52
BookTok: The increasingly powerful force reshaping publishingAuthors have found huge audiences on the platform, and titles have enjoyed renewed interest because of the power of social sharingMon Jan 02 2023 - 05:00
Crazed dictator may be gone but Albania now plagued by corruptionTirana Letter: Country is looking to the future, but the signs of its former leadership are ever presentTue Nov 15 2022 - 17:00
First Look: Inside Ireland’s first Lego store, on Grafton StreetA giant camogie player, the Poolbeg chimneys, the Aviva Stadium... You won’t forget you’re in DublinWed Aug 17 2022 - 13:20
There is always one toy from childhood – random but somehow special – that you never forgetClearing out my family attic, we were sweating and crying and laughing and cursing, sometimes all at the same timeWed Aug 17 2022 - 05:00
That Marty Whelan tattoo? If I were Gay Byrne, up in heaven, I’d be very annoyed Rosita Boland: Phil O’Kelly lost a bet. I’d say he’s paying a high price for itTue Aug 16 2022 - 13:29
The 10 ‘future lights’ of Irish craft, from knife-makers to ceramicistsA new book showcases the work of some of the newer members of the Design and Craft Council of IrelandSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
21-degree seawater, blue sky above: A glorious swim in Clontarf Baths, now open to allRosita Boland takes a dip in the beautiful seawater pool, previously accessible only to club membersFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:10
Rosita Boland: On the train to Galway, something happened that I have waited my whole life to see‘The train is moving!’ the Son cried out. It’s weird and endearing to hear a middle-aged man refer to his mother in public as ‘Mammy’Wed Aug 10 2022 - 05:00
36 hours in Kenmare: ‘It’s the opposite of Killarney. People are still very friendly here’Margaret Thatcher’s grandmother came from the town, which is not something the Iron Lady who once proclaimed, 'You can’t trust the Irish, they are all liars', ever advertisedSat Aug 06 2022 - 05:00
36 hours in Galway: It’s the hottest day of the year, and Salthill is stuffedTourists move in slow motion. There are 10,000 people in the sea and on the beachesSun Jul 31 2022 - 05:30
36 hours in Kilkee, Co Clare: It used to take months to sell a house here. Now it’s weeksNovelist Charlotte Brontë spent her honeymoon at this ‘glorious watering place’ in 1854Sat Jul 23 2022 - 06:00
36 hours on Rathlin Island: ‘I like the life here. There is no crime’‘It’s staggering to see so many seabirds so close by, and in such detail. I am absolutely enthralled: it is an astonishing experience’Sat Jul 09 2022 - 11:15
The family of Ireland’s former richest man eludes publicityThe wife of Pallonji Mistry, the businessman who died this week, was born in a Dublin nursing homeThu Jun 30 2022 - 16:47
Remembering Tiggy Hancock: The life and tragic death of a 15-year-old eventing champion‘The pain will never go away’: On the anniversary of the much-missed girl’s tragic death, Rosita Boland meets the Hancock familySat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Treasured possession: Queen Elizabeth’s coronation menu from 1953 finds way into Irish homeFestivities took place in Quaglino’s Restaurant in London on this day in 1953Thu Jun 02 2022 - 15:48
Rosita Boland on Dervla Murphy: ‘I never interviewed anyone who lived in such an unusual way’The late writer was ‘a unit of one’, fearless and singular, I learned in our two interviewsTue May 24 2022 - 05:00
‘Would you like to visit my grave?’ The farmer planning a home burialMartin Neary has permission to be buried on his own lands in Co Mayo when he diesSat May 14 2022 - 06:01
Ireland’s oldest family shops: ‘We traded through the Famine’How do you stay open for more than a century? Own your premises, offer excellent customer service and keep up with the timesSat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00
Sara Baume: ‘I’ll never have kids, and I’m lucky to be with a man who feels the same’The writer on moving to a remote place, living precariously and not wanting childrenSat Apr 02 2022 - 05:00
Rosita Boland: I could hear the boss say – ‘She’s Irish, and she’s really stupid’'My wedding had just been cancelled. I had just been publicly humiliated... I felt so worthless'Thu Mar 31 2022 - 06:00
Shoes, then toys, then clothes: The three most popular items for Ukrainian refugeesThe Art of Coffee chain has set up a charity centre in Dublin for refugees from UkraineThu Mar 24 2022 - 17:40
Rosita Boland: When the email went unanswered I felt a rising dreadMy friend of old had given me a gift. She asked the most insightful of questionsThu Mar 24 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I was only locked out of my hotel. Imagine being locked out of your countryMillions are out in the cold, unable to return to the places they left their thingsThu Mar 17 2022 - 06:00
‘Russian global rocket threat’: Irish Times front pages from St Patrick’s Days pastRosita Boland reads March 17th front pages of The Irish Times from 1942 to 2012Wed Mar 16 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I never bothered with Mother’s Day before. Now it stabs at meThe death of your mother gradually nibbles into the life you must continue afterwardsThu Mar 10 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: Is the Van Gogh Museum one enormous shop masquerading as a gallery?At what point does the frantic volume of the merchandise begin to cheapen the work it represents?Thu Mar 03 2022 - 06:00
The Irish-born girl flying gliders solo: ‘Going to Mars is my dream’Irish-born teen Ishitha Arekapudi is flying solo in the US, but wants to go higherFri Feb 25 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: My friend’s elderly mother had her dog stolen – it’s haunted me ever sinceGiven that so many of us have pets, Irish society should be more dog-friendlyThu Feb 24 2022 - 06:00
The late summer murders: Two men on a mission to kill Irish womenIn 1976, the career criminals travelled around Ireland, abducting, raping and murdering womenSat Feb 19 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: ‘You’re single now, but you’ll meet someone,’ the mortgage adviser saidAs I sat there in front of this man, I felt rage, humiliation and amazementThu Feb 17 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: Want to keep your husband alive? Stop demanding new sofasAccording to a 1962 guide, women should stop placing ‘burdens’ on men to buy thingsThu Feb 10 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I broke the rules. And it all worked out perfectlyGreen shoots of hope as Micheál Martin told us – rightly – ‘Today is a good day’Thu Feb 03 2022 - 06:00
An open secret: Ireland’s lunatic asylums and mental hospitalsTens of thousands of people were resident in institutions – often for decadesSat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I’ll be spending the long bank holiday weekend travelling everywhereThe ability to travel has never seemed more of a privilegeThu Jan 27 2022 - 06:00
