5+ hour, 3+ min ago  (212+ words) We were utterly spoilt on the East Wall recently. The tide was out. We saw a familiar friend, an Oystercatcher, and some new (to us) seabirds. Can you help us identify this one? Margot (13) and Alex (8) McGuinness, Dublin In the…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago  (231+ words) Photo essay: Irish contemporary photography showcased in Miami exhibition'The Irish Times It was launched at the city's Momentum gallery by Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Niamh Smyth, who was in Florida for St Patrick's…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (451+ words) In the old Scottish tongue a poet is known as a makar. Not so much the seer or visionary who is at the root of our Irish term fili, the makar is one who literally makes and constructs, skilfully fashioning…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (302+ words) This article is part of a series about Irish people who are working in creative fields and living abroad. Almost two decades away from "the real capital" have not faded actor and presenter Derek Murphy's Cork accent.. "I think we…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (508+ words) Born: June 8th, 1941 Died: February 21st, 2026 "He meant it," his daughter Tania told his funeral. "He was never really hiding behind the lens. He was out in front of it- coaxing, chatting, making you laugh, making you forget the camera was even…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (864+ words) The wonder never left me: Photos tell stories of the ocean in an era of warming seas'The Irish Times Ewan introduced me to otoliths, tiny ear stones in fish, that record their lives in layers. Like tree rings, they carry…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (239+ words) The antidote to this is evidence that conservation actually works " that replicable strategies are delivering results. Here are a few recent examples of the best. Consider New Zealand's native k'k'p, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot reliant on camouflage to save…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (864+ words) A close reader from Cork, George Harding, writes to point out my recent two-column series A History of Ireland in Descriptions of Rain included "only one actual death" from precipitation. This, he implies, underrepresented the risk. My sole fatality was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (564+ words) Much of the pre-television footage of Ireland came courtesy of Path" or Movietone imports. Clips were typically narrated with a cut-glass English accent and told from a British perspective. To remedy this omission, Gael Linn, set up in 1953 with the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (624+ words) The Mac, Belfast " "There is an expectation that we're forced to labour with every atom of our bodies," says someone, in a rallying cry, early in T ... Animal Farm review: Orwell mapped on to Belfast in intriguing anatomy of oppression…...