Jane Austen
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In terms of ‘in terms of’ – Frank McNally on a linguistic plague
- Opinion
- January 15, 2021, 19:30
Following my lament (Diary, Thursday) about interviewees starting all their sentences with “So”, a number of readers have made heartfelt pleas that I (...)

White Ivy: Sharp exploration of privilege in modern America
- Books
- January 6, 2021, 06:00
“Maybe there were no new stories, only your story. But what did the real story even matter, when most people judged you based on the shallowest surfac(...)

Matching Funds – Frank McNally on the ‘Charlton Charity’, a labour of love for loving labourers
- Opinion
- October 21, 2020, 19:30
As mentioned in John Connell’s The Running Book, which I reviewed elsewhere in this paper recently, Co Longford may once have been home to the real-li(...)

We pictured idyllic summers, colour schemes, playrooms for the kids. Then we saw the house
- Homes & Property
- September 18, 2020, 06:00
Our first lesson learned looking for a new home: if it looks too good to be true, it’s too good to be true Ignorance is bliss. To a certain extent th(...)

Why saying no can make you indispensable at work
- Work
- August 24, 2020, 05:00
Last weekend I went to see the house in Hampshire where Jane Austen spent the last years of her life and learnt something unexpected about the great a(...)

‘Staycation’ is just another sad casualty of the war against pointless pedantry
- Culture
- August 14, 2020, 05:00
You can safely bet that any plea for linguistic pedantry – insisting on the original meaning of “staycation” for instance – will bring forth Professor(...)

Feng shui and a farmhouse feel: at home in D4 with hatmaker Anthony Peto
- Interiors
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
You have to take your hat off to Anthony Peto. Since moving to Ireland four years ago, the British milliner has seriously landed on his feet. His hat (...)

‘I think people are worried if they can pick up a book off the shelf’
- Irish News
- June 8, 2020, 17:11
The first customers began to walk into Kenny’s Bookshop a few minutes after it opened its doors on Monday for the first time in three months. It has b(...)

The Irish Times view on emerging from lockdown: Normal people and a bygone era
- Editorial
- May 16, 2020, 06:00
It is a nice irony that the must-watch TV series of the lockdown period is the screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People – which is precisely (...)

TV for cocooners: 20 high-quality, old-school series to stream
- TV, Radio, Web
- April 30, 2020, 06:00
You will be coming down with suggestions as to which hip series and zippy films are currently available to the broadband user. When stressfully isolat(...)