The Irish Times

It’s taken a global pandemic to show that the GAA is local to its very core

There has never been a bigger appetite for club games among a national audience

Sat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00

Pale Sister review: Colm Tóbín’s play more eager to meet a reader than a spectator

While there is a subtlety in Tóbín’s text of this reimagined Antigone, Lisa Dwan’s stentorian performance conveys more thunder than thought

Tue Nov 05 2019 - 15:04

Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie review: A truly convincing female voice

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 06:00

Vincent Browne regains control of ‘Magill’, the magazine he set up 40 years ago

Magazine became known for its in-depth investigative journalism

Fri Apr 07 2017 - 21:03

Ryan Tubridy is transitioning from young fogey to old codger

Radio review: He scorns political correctness like a grumpy old man, but in one respect he is still young at heart

Fri Mar 17 2017 - 10:00

Will we miss RTÉ’s kids’ TV?

After 55 years RTÉ is hoping to get out of making programmes for children. But will it make any difference in a world of always-on digital?

Sat Dec 03 2016 - 06:00

Returning to Ireland isn’t a realistic option for many of us emigrants

When we first leave, few of us think we are going for good. Time changes all that.

Tue Nov 15 2016 - 17:55

Julie Walters taps into her inner Mayo woman

The actor, who has channelled her Irish side once more for the film ‘Brooklyn’, talks about the class divide, Irish nuns and Mo Mowlam

Fri Oct 30 2015 - 06:00

Outhouse library: a new home in Dublin for LGBT literature

Ciarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the process

Tue Dec 09 2014 - 06:00

Survey reveals the most borrowed library books in Ireland

To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries

Mon Nov 17 2014 - 01:00

‘My main lunchtime ritual is wandering around the living room absentmindedly eating slices of ham’

Una Mullally, journalist

Wed Nov 12 2014 - 12:30

Shoe-in for mental health

Wearing odd shoes for a good cause

Fri Apr 25 2014 - 12:05

Dear World . . . Love, Ireland

Five people compose letters from Ireland to the wider world. Read theirs, write your own, and we’ll publish the best ones on St Patrick’s Weekend

Sat Mar 08 2014 - 01:00

Ivor Browne: ‘When you give as much love as you can, you get it back 100-fold’

Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women

Sat Jul 20 2013 - 01:00