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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.

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