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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...

Clear and vivid prose: Deirdre Madden. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Deirdre Madden on space and time

Deirdre Madden’s new novel is about a slippery subject. But it’s far from being weird, obscure or overly philosophical

The Ash and the Beech: the Drama of Woodland Change, by Richard Mabey

Paperback review

Members of Palmerstown School of Ballet at St Stephens Green Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
The times we lived in

Image: Kevin O’Hare/Irish Times Premedia
Led back into James Joyce’s Dublin

Self-guided walking tours of James Joyce’s city transport Dubliners and tourists to a new world

The times we lived in

Many young men of Mountjoy

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(...)

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