Louisa May Alcott
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The Booksellers: A brilliant browse through New York’s small bookshops
- Film
- July 3, 2020, 05:00
Deep into this lovely documentary, one contributor suggests the bookshop browser is a rarer creature than he or she once was. The argument goes that c(...)

Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background
- Film
- April 2, 2020, 09:14
Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1868 novel Little Women is known for being forward thinking – but not so forward thinking that it predicted the invention (...)

The Irish Times view on Saoirse Ronan: star power
- Editorial
- January 17, 2020, 19:30
Moments after Saoirse Ronan received her fourth Oscar nomination, Sky News identified her as British. The surge of online fury confirmed the affection(...)

SAOIRSE RONAN IS SPENDING CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND AFTER AN EXTENDED BREAK FROM ACTING, JUST AS YET MORE OSCAR BUZZ BUILDS FOR HER ROLE IN GRETA GERWIG(...)

Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress
- Film
- December 9, 2019, 13:18
Saoirse Ronan has been nominated as best actress in a drama at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards. The Irish actor, still only 25, picks up her fifth Gl(...)

It’s not often that the initial Twitter responses to a “highly anticipated” movie are anything other than enthusiastic. Greta Gerwig and her team can,(...)

Saoirse Ronan in Little Women: What’s all the fuss about?
- Film
- August 20, 2019
Last week the highly anticipated trailer for Greta Gerwig’s all-star adaptation of Little Women dropped online. Needless to say, the internet lapped i(...)

The Irish woman who became Canada’s first major poet
- Abroad
- June 6, 2018, 13:00
Isabella Vlancy Crawford was born in Dublin in 1850. Despite obscurity in her own lifetime, she is now recognised as a pioneer of Canadian poetry. We(...)

Time is always at our elbow. Ethan Hawke, who has changed little in 30 years, is at the Soho Hotel to talk about his role in Aisling Walsh’s irresist(...)

A bone to pick with Beckett – An Irishman’s Diary about misuse of the word ‘literally’
- Opinion
- January 12, 2017, 00:01
Here at the Society for the Preservation of “Literally” as an Adverb of Truth (SPLAT), we were called upon recently to investigate a case involving th(...)