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Rosita Boland

Rosita Boland

Rosita Boland is a news features writer at the Irish Times, specialising in human interest stories. She was a 2009 Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She's also the author of two collections of poetry and two non-fiction books about Ireland.

Graham Wilkinson and Paul Kennedy participate in the 20th annual Brennan’s bread Bloomsday messenger bike rally in Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson
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Farewell to Ireland: former Clare county manager Joe Boland with Patrick Hennessy’s painting of the president’s visit. Photograph: Eamon Ward
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When President Kennedy left Ireland after his visit in June 1963, the people of Co Clare wanted to give him a memorable send-off (...)

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Martin Amis at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan
Martin Amis tells Borris House festival audience he wants women to ‘rule the world’

British novelist was in Co Carlow for an interview with journalist Sinéad Gleeson

Joe Russell, general manager of The Lodge at Doonbeg and Doonbeg Golf Club. Photograph: John Kelly
Joe Russell, manager, The Lodge at Doonbeg, Co Clare

Ashford Castle general manager Niall Rochford. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Niall Rochford, manager of Ashford Castle, Cong, Co Mayo

Patricia Roberts, proprietor of No 1 Pery Square Hotel, Limerick. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22
Patricia Roberts, One Pery Square, Limerick

“Air of progress”? Followers of Ayatollah Khomeini march in Tehran during the 1979 revolution in Iran. Photograph: Saris/AP
Word for Word: a different Planet

‘Tourism, for us, is an exciting business to be in’: Cillian Murphy, owner of Murphy Blacks and chairman of Loop Head Tourism. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
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‘We’re hoping that, nationally, a lot of people will be looking on the map and saying, “We didn’t know it was there, but now we’re(...)

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