What, no turkey? Strange Christmases in classic children’s booksChristmas in children’s books could be a strange affair, from The Long Winter’s meal of oyster soup to the austere no-gift policy in Little WomenTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Hard truths behind Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the PrairieFans of Wilder’s Little House books will treasure her autobiography, which illuminates the stories and spares no details of the pioneers’ sometimes difficult livesMon Dec 15 2014 - 10:00
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington: ‘I’m from a family of feminists. I took this case to honour them’The academic has won a landmark Equality Tribunal case against her former employer, NUI Galway, for discrimination in not promoting her. Women know why she took the case. ‘Men don’t get it,’ she saysSat Dec 06 2014 - 06:00
The all-night hooley in MacCarthy’s Bar revisitedTen years after the death of English writer Pete McCarthy, tourists continue to pour in to the Castletownbere pub made famous by his best-selling book and its vivid depiction of Irish lifeFri Dec 05 2014 - 10:00
The Kerry workhouse girls who became Australian pioneers‘They lived in the bush or went to the goldmines’: the Earl Grey scheme saw 4,000 destitute Irish girls, including 117 from Kerry, transported to AustraliaMon Dec 01 2014 - 01:00
Unsung heroes of the Irish Red CrossThe Irish Red Cross is marking its 75th anniversary this year. It is part of a huge international organisation that provides humanitarian aid all over the world.Sat Nov 29 2014 - 06:00
Lisa Holt, 45: ‘I liked making money. I became very successful, and now I’m an MD’Sat Nov 29 2014 - 06:00
Finola Reilly, 43: ‘I tried internet dating for a while. The solid men all lived about two hours away’Sat Nov 29 2014 - 06:00
Siobhán Jutika Healy, 48: ‘My mother said, “I won’t be here when you get back,” then drove off . . . to New Zealand’‘For me Buddhism has a richness I didn’t know how to get before. It’s not telling you what to do’Sat Nov 29 2014 - 01:00
‘Twice this week, lunch was water – feeding the reporter isn’t in the contract’Rosita Boland, journalistFri Nov 14 2014 - 12:36
Main Street, Belmullet: ‘Our remoteness has saved us’In the concluding part of The Street, we visit an area that is too far out for the multiples to reach, meaning that long-standing local shops remain at the heart of the communityMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
The Street: ‘If Obama hadn’t come, the place would be derelict’Moneygall, Co Offaly, which comprises just one street, has changed utterly since the First Couple visited in 2011Mon Oct 13 2014 - 01:00
Regina Glynn, 56: ‘Salads were part of our daily meals. That was very unusual’Sat Oct 11 2014 - 01:00
Callan calling: a street that acts as a bridge to the pastThe Street: A new series examines the life of four streets in Ireland. First we go to Bridge Street in the Co Kilkenny town, which is being brought back to life by localsMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Migrants of the Mediterranean: ‘Lesbians are not approved of in Nigeria’Asylum seekers at the Cara Mineo centre in rural Sicily explain why they left their home countriesMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Child migrants of the Mediterranean pay a high priceEvery week thousands of children travel in unseaworthy boats from Africa to Europe. Some of those who made it to Sicily share their storiesSun Oct 05 2014 - 16:00
Journeys of death: boat people of the southern MediterraneanRosita Boland reports from Sicily on the survivors of a hazardous mass migrationFri Oct 03 2014 - 11:30
Alice Maher: a singular artist brought to bookIt’s a rare ability to be able to communicate equally with those interested in art and those not so interested, and is only possible because Maher is so giftedMon Sept 15 2014 - 01:00
Veronica Dunne: still working at 87 in an ‘ageist’ IrelandThe opera singer continues to train students for 39 hours a week – and she doesn’t stop for lunchSat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00
‘It is only me and the four walls’The hour a week Alone volunteers spend with older people brings life-enhancing human connectionTue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00
Toby Joyce, 62: ‘You can be a moral person and live an upright life without religious belief’Fri Aug 22 2014 - 11:30
Cathal Cullen, 65: ‘Two guards drove in the gate to tell us our son, Cormac, was dead’Fri Aug 22 2014 - 11:30
Fred Crowe, 64: ‘I was one of the first people in Ireland with an email address’The Generations series, charting the experience of Irish people through the decades, by Rosita Boland, reaches over 60-year-olds in Saturday's Irish Times. Here we preview the voices from that decade with Fred Crowe from ClontarfFri Aug 22 2014 - 11:30
An app that shows people with disabilities the wayWay Buddy helps people with learning difficulties to follow routes by showing them pictures of landmarks along the wayFri Aug 22 2014 - 01:00
Matters of life, death and Dublin undertakingA book marking 200 years of the Nichols family and their undertaking business isn’t all seriousThu Aug 07 2014 - 01:00
Time travel: communists, cold wars and cancerVintage Summer: In the final part of the series, we compare a 1954 issue of Time magazine with one from todayWed Aug 06 2014 - 01:00
The joys, jolts and jingoism of old children’s booksVintage Summer: Looking back on comics and books from the 1970s and earlier, the prejudice and sexism jump out at you, although annuals were not as gender-specific as they are nowWed Jul 30 2014 - 01:00
A different world: advice from a 1960s agony auntVintage Summer: Mary Marryat’s column in Woman’s Weekly shows just how much attitudes to sex, death and abuse have shiftedWed Jul 23 2014 - 01:00
Servitude, sex and slavery: decoding old magazine adsA Vintage Summer: A trawl through old ads is funny, but also a jarring reminder of past social truthsWed Jul 16 2014 - 01:00
Pretty speeches and quiet agreeableness: man, I feel like a 1960s womanVintage Summer: A book of advice for women from a bygone era has sections on ‘your husband, your money and you’ and ‘imagination in marriage’. What will a group of modern women make of it?Wed Jul 09 2014 - 01:00
Five Go on a Treasure hunt: the car-boot sale dilemmaI’m a seasoned searcher for second-hand treasure, but as I trawl a car-boot sale in Fethard, Co Tipperary, in search of a bargain to make money for charity, my panic levels start to riseTue Jul 08 2014 - 01:00
Cabbage flan, anyone? Dishing it up 1970s styleVintage Summer: In a new series, I’m using old books and magazines to compare bygone times with the present. This week I cook a disgusting-sounding recipe for a dinner party. How will it go down?Wed Jul 02 2014 - 01:00
Eastern promise: inside the secret vaults of the Chester BeattyThe Chester Beatty library has combed through its secret vaults to put together a new exhibition with eclectic pieces, some of which have never been on view beforeSat Jun 28 2014 - 01:00
Automatic right to assessment for adoption a ‘waste of resources’Committee told 14 times the number of people seeking to adopt ‘intercountry’ than children being adoptedFri Jun 27 2014 - 09:48
Noel O’Sullivan, 73: ‘I learned more about people through sport than I ever did through management courses’Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Istria? It’s top of my listEnjoy the clear waters, relaxed atmosphere and wonderful food of this northern peninsula in CroatiaSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Eilish Cullen, 75: ‘Ageism in society is very destructive. Don’t teach us how to knit. Make us more self-reliant’Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Nuala McCarthy, 72: ‘Even though Irish people talk a lot, it is very superficial. It’s hard for people coming here’Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Jacqueline Kilcullen, 71: ‘There was no question of having sex before marriage’Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Brendan Parsons, 78: ‘How many rooms are there in the castle? It depends on what you call a room’The Generations series, charting the experience of Irish people through the decades, by Rosita Boland, reaches 70-year-olds in Saturday's Irish Times. Here we preview the voices from that decade with the seventh Earl of RosseFri Jun 20 2014 - 14:45
