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1997 in Northern Ireland

Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and wins the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize.

Against the Head

Against the Head is a weekly rugby magazine programme, broadcast on RTE Two and presented by Joanne Cantwell with regular panellists Shane Byrne, and Irish Times rugby correspondent Gerry Thornley with various other guests throughout the series.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1998

Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times: A crowd of about 3,500 made the journey to the tiny village of Ballingarry to see two sides with formidable CVs.

C. Douglas Deane

He also was a member of various Government committees and other organisations relating to the natural history of Ulster and wrote regular articles in the Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph and the Belfast News Letter (Deane, 1983).

Ciaran Carson

His collections of poetry include The Irish for No (1987), winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Belfast Confetti (1990), which won the Irish Times' Irish Literature Prize for Poetry; and First Language: Poems (1993), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

D'Olier Street

From 1895–2006, Irish Times was based in D'Olier Street, leading the paper to be nicknamed The Old Lady of D'Olier Street.

Eamonn Oliver Walsh

So the spin that was put on that yesterday morning (in an article in The Irish Times by One in Four founder Colm O'Gorman) was most disingenuous and outrageous.

Francis MacManus

The panel of three judges for the 2012 competition is: Brendan Barrington, a Senior Editor at Penguin Ireland and editor of The Dublin Review; John MacKenna, author, and winner of the Irish Times, Hennessy and Cecil Day Lewis awards as well as a Jacob's Award for his radio documentaries on Leonard Cohen; and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, novelist and short-story writer.

Frank Ronan

His novels have won numerous prizes including the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize.

John Arnott

He acquired the Irish Times and The Northern Whig newspapers, though he later disposed of the Whig over disputes relating to its editorial policy.

Paul Brock

His recent album Humdinger with fellow band member Enda Scahill was voted Irish Music Album of The Year by the Irish Times and has been released by Compass Records.

The Stinging Fly

Anne Enright was the winner of the inaugural prize in 2004; the judges were AL Kennedy, Irish Times literary editor Caroline Walsh, and Tobias Wolf.


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Aisling O'Sullivan

In 2011 and 2012, she toured Ireland again with Druid, playing the titular character in Big Maggie by John B. Keane and was consequently nominated for Best Actress in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.

Bleakley

Thomas Bleakley McDowell (1923–2009), chief executive of The Irish Times for nearly 40 years

Conor Gearty

He had significant debating success in University, twice winning the Irish Times debating competition and serving as Auditor of the University College Dublin Law Society.

Gemma Puglisi

and she has been quoted in many media outlets including the Associated Press, abcnews.com; The Irish Times, Agence France-Presse, the Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, the The Washington Times, nbcsports.com; sportsillustrated.com; the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Roll Call, the Boston Herald and the Congressional Quarterly.

Geraldine Kennedy

Kennedy was paid more than the editor of the UK's top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation of about 9 times that of The Irish Times.

Hugh Logue

The Northern Ireland State Papers of 1980 show that together with John Hume and Austin Currie he played a key role in presenting the SDLP'S 'Three Strands' approach to the Thatcher Government's Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins in April 1980 (Irish Times, 30 December 2010).

Iona Institute

In an article in The Irish Times by Kathy Sheridan on same-sex marriage, the institute was described as being "blessed with extremely high-profile members with priceless multimedia platforms" and "'very, very engaged' with politicians".

Lawrence Knox

Lawrence E. Knox (1836–1873), British Army officer and founder of The Irish Times

O'Toole family

Fintan O'Toole is an award winning Irish journalist, author and critic, best known for his work with The Irish Times.

Patsy McGarry

He received a national media award for comment and analysis in 1992 for Sunday Independent articles on the fall of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach and was awarded the 1998 Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year for articles in The Irish Times on Drumcree, the papal visit to Cuba that year, and articles criticisng the Irish Churches for failing to practise what they preached on reconciliation.

Randal Bays

In 1995 Bays began releasing his own albums under the Foxglove Records label, which he founded, including "Out of the Woods", "The Salmon's Leap", "House to House" with Roger Landes—voted best traditional album of 2005 by the Irish Times--"Overland" with Dáithí Sproule, and several more.

The Pregnant Widow

The novel was published to mixed reviews, Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times calling it a "thumping disappointment", while Richard Bradford in The Spectator described it as a "unique, sometimes exquisite experience".