The Irish Times

Thousands of students have experienced sexual violence or harassment - study

Welcome to the Student Hub weekly digest - a selection of stories, reviews and podcasts

Fri Jan 28 2022 - 11:30

Matt Williams: Inadequate attacking plan costing Ireland dearly

Coaches must change tactics against Scots or a banquet of consequences is inevitable

Sat Mar 13 2021 - 06:00

Retracing an 80-year-old journey along the river Shannon

Richard Hayward’s travel book gave a unique insight into rural Ireland of the 1930s

Wed Sept 23 2020 - 05:00

Lost Horizons – Frank McNally on a year of going nowhere

Thu Aug 13 2020 - 19:01

Rediscovering the virtues of potted crab

JP McMahon: For some reason potted shellfish still has currency in our own era

Mon Apr 13 2020 - 06:00

The Lighthouse: Willem Dafoe is the best screen villain since Daniel Day Lewis

Review: Robert Pattinson’s easy naturalism curdles into something unnerving and evil

Wed Jan 29 2020 - 15:26

Hung, Thrawn, and Quartered – Frank NcNally on Westminster’s Brexit crisis, as seen through Ulster-Scots

Fri Jan 18 2019 - 18:40

Are humans losing the ability to be idle?

Unthinkable: A new book on dossing and daydreaming seeks to challenge our traditional work ethic

Tue Dec 11 2018 - 13:32

A dozen ways to ditch the football

Twelve ways to spend 90 minutes this evening if you have no interest in watching the World Cup

Wed Jul 11 2018 - 16:30

Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick Heaney

For his family, choosing 100 poems from a long career, was weighted with memories

Sat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00

Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery

Jane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson

Sat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00

Idlers of the world unite: Why the work ethic needs to be resisted

Unthinkable: The problems of modern labour call for a ‘collective and structural solution’, says David Frayne

Mon Apr 17 2017 - 08:00

Obituary: Frank Delaney

Author, broadcaster and champion of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Sat Feb 25 2017 - 15:22

Being on your own on Valentine's Day: four singletons speak

As Valentine’s Day approaches, the pressure to pair up is strong – but some are resisting the pull

Sat Feb 11 2017 - 10:05

Junior Cert music covers U2, Ella Fitzgerald and John Lennon

Teachers say both the higher- and ordinary-level papers were ‘very fair’

Wed Jun 22 2016 - 19:10

Television: Daniel and Majella having a lark in the great Irish B&B off

Review: Daniel and Majella’s B&B Road Trip; The Great Irish Bake-off; Jekyll and Hyde

Fri Oct 30 2015 - 14:00

An A-Z of stories of the sea, from Conrad to Cervantes, Defoe to Patrick O’Brian

Norman Freeman got a taste for maritime yarns studying for his radio officer’s certificate in Kevin Street. As his own book comes out, he explores the classics of the tradition

Tue Oct 27 2015 - 17:37

Paul Durcan: the most playful poet in Ireland

His latest book contains 67 poems on such disparate topics as the weather forecast, the Syrian war, a visit to the GP, retail therapy, clampers and Seamus Heaney. There is sadness, illness, anger and trademark humour

Tue Mar 17 2015 - 05:00

10 scary stories for Halloween

You may be too old to go trick or treating, but are you brave enough to read one of these tales before you go to sleep tonight?

Fri Oct 31 2014 - 07:08

In a word

kidnap

Mon Sept 22 2014 - 01:00

More than one direction for Fiona Bevan

She co-wrote ‘Little Things’ for One Direction with Ed Sheeran and has been mentored by Adam Ant – but now singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan is going it alone with her own brand of “pop in disguise”

Fri Apr 18 2014 - 00:00