Rosita Boland
@rositaboland.bsky.social
Senior Features Writer at The Irish Times. Always curious. I'm at Rosita.Boland@irishtimes.com
I wrote about Alice Munro's legacy. I loved Alice Munro but the literary legacy of the Canadian Chekhov is tainted forever now
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I loved Alice Munro but the literary legacy of the Canadian Chekhov is tainted forever now
Everything written about Alice Munroe after revelations about her daughter’s sexual abuse will record the Nobel Prize-winning author’s failure as a parent and human being
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January 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I wrote about Alice Munro's legacy. I loved Alice Munro but the literary legacy of the Canadian Chekhov is tainted forever now
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Please read this beautiful, important, inspiring piece by my amazing friend @roisiningle.bsky.social Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year
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Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year
I haven’t written a personal column for around a year. There have been difficult days. I’ve also had one of the best day’s of my life
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December 24, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Please read this beautiful, important, inspiring piece by my amazing friend @roisiningle.bsky.social Róisín Ingle: My profound, challenging, surprisingly joyful, life-changing year
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I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot as one woman to another in solidarity and support
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Rosita Boland: I wrote a letter to Gisèle Pelicot as one woman to another in solidarity and support
I wrote in admiration and acknowledgement of her bravery, and in sympathy and empathy for what she had endured for years
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December 19, 2024 at 12:25 PM
I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot I wrote a letter to Madame Pelicot as one woman to another in solidarity and support
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This great piece by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is making waves
I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
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December 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
This great piece by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social is making waves
If you want a good laugh, read @patrickfreyne.bsky.social on Hot Frosty today, which has to be the best movie name for ages. What do women want? A hunky idiot without a past, that’s what
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Patrick Freyne: What do women want? A hunky idiot without a past, that’s what
Hot Frosty, Netflix’s latest reboot of The Snowman, at last brings some ‘hubba-hubba, vroom-vroom, arooooga!’ to Raymond Briggs’s family favourite
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December 5, 2024 at 9:12 AM
If you want a good laugh, read @patrickfreyne.bsky.social on Hot Frosty today, which has to be the best movie name for ages. What do women want? A hunky idiot without a past, that’s what
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Ah, Dublin in December 2024. The sound of reindeers - and the broken, collapsed posters of the unelected flapping in the wind
December 4, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Ah, Dublin in December 2024. The sound of reindeers - and the broken, collapsed posters of the unelected flapping in the wind
I wrote about how plastic flowers in restaurants drive me crazy Fake flowers make me sad and mad: Plastic, plastic everywhere and I can’t stand it
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Rosita Boland: Plastic, plastic everywhere: I cannot abide the ever-increasing presence of fake foliage
Why do shop and restaurant owners seem to think adding to the world’s collection of plastic tat improves the ambience?
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December 2, 2024 at 9:05 AM
I wrote about how plastic flowers in restaurants drive me crazy Fake flowers make me sad and mad: Plastic, plastic everywhere and I can’t stand it
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www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
I am glad to see this story. SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
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SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
Barry Group says move ‘reflects our commitment to maintaining a retail environment that resonates with the values of our customers and partners’
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November 26, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I am glad to see this story. SuperValu, Costcutter, Centra and Carry Out to cease selling Conor McGregor’s Forged Irish Stout and Proper No Twelve whiskey
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
Here’s my dog, wondering how my first day on Bluesky is going. They are ALL good dogs. Especially this one.
November 25, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Here’s my dog, wondering how my first day on Bluesky is going. They are ALL good dogs. Especially this one.
Cannot get “I like my sootcase” out of my head. “First we have lunch, and then we go to school.” Did he only go to school AFTER lunch? With his Louis Vuitton Sootcase?
November 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Cannot get “I like my sootcase” out of my head. “First we have lunch, and then we go to school.” Did he only go to school AFTER lunch? With his Louis Vuitton Sootcase?
Wind like roiling waves in the trees.
November 24, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Wind like roiling waves in the trees.
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A sound and practical friend is looking for a room to rent to use as a small music studio in Dublin. Does anyone on here know of anything to fit the bill?
November 24, 2024 at 1:51 PM
A sound and practical friend is looking for a room to rent to use as a small music studio in Dublin. Does anyone on here know of anything to fit the bill?