The Irish Times

Damien Owens: ‘People confuse seriousness with intelligence. Life is a comedy-drama’

The Monaghan-born writer on finding his voice and his fascination with other families

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 05:00

Patrick Freyne’s favourite art: Things that should be trash but are actually brilliant

Z Nation, The Monkees, Buffy and 2000AD are fine examples of brilliance by stealth

Tue Jan 05 2021 - 05:00

Howya – An Irishman’s Diary on greetings

Mon Dec 28 2020 - 19:30

Four-Dimensional Green Fields – Frank McNally on unified field theory, de Valera’s Ireland, and a new GAA club in Belfast

Fri Jul 17 2020 - 19:01

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Government – Frank McNally on arks, parks, and literary escapism

Fri Apr 17 2020 - 18:30

Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes dies aged 75

Comedian and musician also sang with Beatles parody band The Rutles

Mon Dec 30 2019 - 16:01

Muted bond markets offer countries a chance to spend big on green projects

Boris Johnson might have stumbled on to something by promising to blow the budget on spending rises rather than tax cuts

Sun Dec 22 2019 - 18:58

The beauty of a good bookshop – bookworms have their say

Rick O’Shea, Emer McLysaght and others on their favourite bookshops as children and adults

Wed Oct 23 2019 - 05:22

Computing’s great leap forward not matched by safeguards

Software errors can be perilous – as the airline and motor industries have discovered

Thu Sept 26 2019 - 06:45

Watch us lose the run of ourselves after beating All Blacks

Beating the All Blacks is a notions bonanza and thus laden with danger for Irish rugby

Sun Nov 18 2018 - 17:35

Conor Pope: 20 years of Google has turned us into lazy know-it-alls

Google, which turns 20 this week, has ruined medicine, map-making and pub quizzes

Mon Sept 24 2018 - 15:12

20 moments that lit up 2018 All-Ireland football championship

Football the poor relation at the end of summer where complaining is true national sport

Sat Sept 01 2018 - 08:00

‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on

Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00

Brexit is like quantum mechanics, nobody understands it

Chris Johns: Maybe the Brexit equations could be solved with the addition of some dark matter?

Sun May 06 2018 - 13:01

Twenty-nine ways World Wide Web has changed our lives in 29 years

British computer scientist’s proposal led to transformation of services and data access

Mon Mar 12 2018 - 06:00

Elon Musk launches fastest Tesla ever from his Falcon Heavy rocket

Tesla Roadster fired towards Mars at 20,000km/h

Tue Feb 06 2018 - 21:37

Chris Horn: History of wearable devices links watch and Fitbit range

A challenge faced by firms offering wearable products is consumer boredom

Mon Jul 06 2015 - 01:45

Leaps in technology have not brought huge economic strides

A growing number of economists are wondering if the technological revolution has been greatly overhyped

Tue May 26 2015 - 01:00

Ebooks column: Digital readers have added new dimension to world of fiction

Stephen King was the first writer to embrace the medium

Sun Jan 04 2015 - 12:15

Derek Landy on living life without a boss

‘Make every chapter your absolute favourite . . . Then, when it’s done, make the NEXT chapter your absolute favourite’

Thu Aug 28 2014 - 07:00

Brought to Book: Sheila Agnew on Middlemarch’s wisdom and the title that brought her home

The rewards of being a writer outweigh the wages she earned as a Manhattan lawyer

Thu May 22 2014 - 01:00

Your favourite opening lines in literature

After a huge response to our feature on great opening lines, we’ve assembled our favourite openers posted by readers

Fri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00

Seat offers up more family space

Road test: Seat Leon ST - “It may be vanilla, but it’s vanilla with a little Spanish zest”

Tue Jan 14 2014 - 12:31

Management consultants: they charge a lot but know a little

The new Governor of the Bank of England has called in the consultants. Will he get his money’s worth?

Tue Oct 22 2013 - 12:35

Scientist Brian Cox gives lecture at new UCD science centre

BBC presenter keeps audience on their toes with explanation of Higgs boson discovery

Fri Oct 18 2013 - 21:03

Does science really say everything that can be said about life?

Opinion: ‘scientism’ wants to keep morality and philosopy out of the public domain

Tue Sept 03 2013 - 12:01

Fantasy book deal for ‘Irish Times’ journalist Shane Hegarty

‘Substantial six figure sum’ for series of comic adventure novels for young readers

Thu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00