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Arminta Wallace

Arminta Wallace

Arminta Wallace has been on the staff at The Irish Times since 1986. She has worked in various capacities over the years, including sub-editor and page designer. Since the year 2000 she has been a full-time feature writer - and yes, she does know how lucky she is -  producing articles and interviews on a broad range of topics from theatre through visual arts to travel, film and music.  She is passionate about the natural world, vegetarian cookery and books, books, books...

Dunquin harbour, on the west tip of the Dingle peninsula, which services boats for the Blasket Islands
From the archive: Island's new era met with discord

In 2005 Arminta Wallace travelled west to Slea Head in search of literature and to get to the bottom of a 'story of an uglier orde(...)

Scent of a rose: it might make you feel (seriously) better
The power of scent

An Irishwoman’s Diary: Can ‘good’ smells do more than just give us a momentary lift?

Orderlies at Dublin Castle, October 1953. Photograph: Dermot Barry / The Irish Times . . . neg no 53/L/532
Orderlies at Dublin Castle

Photograph from Times Pictorial archives

Paul Lynch whose new book Red Sky in Morning has just been published. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
‘I have to keep pushing at the edges of what I can do’

Debut novelist Paul Lynch is frank about his influences, admits he’s ‘not good’ at research, and writes in ‘a bit of a trance’ – b(...)

Life stories: ‘I want to be a popular novelist who’s also serious, or a serious novelist who’s also very accessible,’ says Douglas Kennedy. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Douglas Kennedy: a storyteller grappling with the larger things in life

Six million books sold – and still the author of ‘The Big Picture’ is always fretting about the next one

Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. Photograph: David Sleator
Mohsin Hamid: ‘Writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain’

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist was an international bestseller and is about to hit the big screen, starring Kate Huds(...)

1987 - 24/1/1987 - page 4 - At the Workers' Party conference, yesterday, from left, Councillor Eamon Gilmore, Mr Tomas MacGiolla TD, and MrProinsias de Rossa TD. Photograph: Paddy Whelan / THE IRISH TIMES . . . neg no 87/1/210 *** *** *** A CHALLENGE to reduce the tax level of PA YE workers by 10 per cent and transfer the burden to farmers and the self employed was issued to the major political parties by the leader of the Workers Party, Mr Tomas MacGiolla . yesterday
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Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley at Cúirt. Photograph: Boyd Challenger
A meeting of the sharpest literary minds at Cúirt

The key to the success of the Cúirt literary festival is putting contrasting writers in the same room and letting them at it – thi(...)

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